The risk of wound infection after emergency re-sternotomy

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2008 May;7(3):469. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2008.176016B.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Anti-Infective Agents, Local / therapeutic use
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / adverse effects*
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / methods*
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Patient Selection
  • Povidone-Iodine / therapeutic use
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Reoperation
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sternum / surgery*
  • Surgical Wound Infection / etiology
  • Surgical Wound Infection / prevention & control*
  • Therapeutic Irrigation / methods

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Anti-Infective Agents, Local
  • Povidone-Iodine