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THE SURGICAL WOUND

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PETER DINEEN
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Surgical wound assessment and documentation of nurses: an integrative review

open access: yesJournal of Wound Care, 2016
Objective: Surgical site infections (SSI) are serious complications that can lead to adverse patient outcomes such as prolonged hospital length of stay, increased health-care costs, and even death.
Frances Lin
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Surgical wound infections

The American Journal of Surgery, 1957
Abstract 1. 1. The increase in wound infection on a surgical service led to a study of possible sources. 2. 2. The infection rate has no relation to monthly admission rate, number of “dirty” cases admitted or number of operative procedures. 3. 3. Staph.
J J, BYRNE, N E, OKEKE
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A SURGICAL WOUND ISOLATOR

The Lancet, 1967
Abstract 104 OPERATIONS in North and Central America were carried out with the operation wound isolated in an inflated, free-form plastic bag. The purpose was to achieve, not absolute asepsis, but a safe surgical field in an otherwise highly contaminated environment. The operating-rooms varied from highly contaminated to clean.
CharlesB. Beal   +4 more
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Surgical Management of Wounds

Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, 1991
Surgical management of a wound whether elective or post-traumatic requires strict adherence to certain basic precepts if a successful outcome is to be expected: 1. The patient must be stabilized. 2. Blood supply to the tissues must be adequate in order for the wound to heal. 3. All necrotic tissue must be debrided as it provides an excellent medium for
J S, Rosen, J E, Cleary
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Surgical Wound Misclassification

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2015
The article “Surgical wound classifications: a multicenter evaluation” provides valuable additional evidence that the commonly used 4-level surgical wound classification (SWC) is not uniformly applied to some types of surgical procedures. Wedonot believe, however, that this observationwarrants the author’s conclusion that “Surgical wound ...
Peter R, Dodds, Jon H, Dodds
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Surgical wound infection

The American Journal of Medicine, 1991
Wound infections remain a major source of postoperative morbidity, accounting for about a quarter of the total number of nosocomial infections. Today, many of these infections are first recognized in the outpatient clinic or in the patient's home due to the large number of operations done in the outpatient setting.
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