Negative pressure wound therapy reduces incidence of postoperative wound infection and dehiscence after long-segment thoracolumbar spinal fusion: A single institutional experience

Spine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2911-2917

  Adogwa, Owoicho ^a   Fatemi, Parastou ^a   Perez, Edgar ^a   Moreno, Jessica ^a   Gazcon, Gustavo Chagoya ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^b   Cheng, Joseph ^c   Gottfried, Oren ^a   Bagley, Carlos A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformity; Negative pressure wound therapy; Spine outcomes; Surgical site infections; Wound dehiscence; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; LONG SEGMENT THORACOLUMBAR SPINAL FUSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIXED INFECTION; NERVE ROOT INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROTEUS INFECTION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84919386133     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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