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Surgical wound assessment and documentation of nurses: an integrative review

, 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.
Ding, S, Gillespie, BM, Gillespie, Brigid, Lin, Frances, Lin, F   +4 more
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EVALUATION OF COMPLICATOINS AND BENEFITS OF HISTOACRYL TISSUE GLUE IN SURGICAL WOUNDS [PDF]

Acta Medica Iranica, 1999
- Healing of surgical wounds and their complications such as infection or scar formation are of major concern in surgery. Tissue glues are advanced to reduce these problems.
M. R. Zafarghandy, A.R. Nuri, P. Irandoost, N. Chimeh, A. Jafari   +4 more
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Comparison of two different skin preparation strategies for open cardiac surgery

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014
Introduction: Surgical site infection (SSI) is a serious complication after cardiac surgery; skin preparation is an important step in the prevention of wound contamination with skin flora.
Muhammet Onur Hanedan, Ertekin Utku Unal, Aysen Aksoyek, Veysel Basar, Sercan Tak, Ufuk Tutun, Hasan Isik, C.Levent Birincioglu   +7 more
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High‐Resolution MRI Revealed Different Etiology‐Specific Associations With Cerebral Infarction in Adult Moyamoya Vasculopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective High‐resolution MRI enables detailed assessment of intracranial vessel wall pathology in moyamoya vasculopathy. We aimed to classify adult moyamoya vasculopathy etiologies using high‐resolution MRI and to examine subtype‐specific associations between high‐resolution MRI features and ischemic infarction.
Guangsong Han, Jiachun Pan, Yuehui Hong, Xiaoyuan Fan, Ming Yao, Lixin Zhou, Yicheng Zhu, Feng Feng, Jun Ni   +8 more
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Perioperative infection prophylaxis and risk factor impact in colon surgery [PDF]

, 2000
Background: A prospective observational study was undertaken in 2,481 patients undergoing elective colon resection in 114 German centers to identify optimal drug and dosing modalities and risk factors for postoperative infection.
Rau, H. G., Zimmermann, A., Lachmann, A., Kohler, L., Mittelkotter, U., Kullmann, K. H.   +5 more
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Implementation of the hemoprophylactic protocol in orthopedic surgery

Journal of Health Sciences, 2011
Introduction: Antibiotic prophylaxis is defined as the use of antimicrobials in the absence of symptoms of infection, with the aim of preventing or reducing the incidence of infection after surgery.
Elvedin Osmanovic, Mensura Aščerić, Esed Omerkic   +2 more
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Longitudinal Assessment of Biomarkers in ALS: Discriminative Biomarkers for Disease Progression and Survival

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the association and discriminative performance of serum biomarkers with clinical disease progression and survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods This retrospective study, conducted at Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, used longitudinal serum samples collected between January 2018 and ...
David R. Beers, Yueh‐Yun Lin, Jason R. Thonhoff, Aaron D. Thome, Alireza Faridar, Weihua Zhao, Shixiang Wen, Stanley H. Appel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fatores de risco para infecção de ferida cirúrgica no pós-operatório de colecistectomia. [PDF]

, 1996
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Tocoginecologia, Curso de Medicina, Florianópolis ...
Farias Júnior, José Orlando de
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Surgical Wound Infections in the Intensive Care Unit

, 2007
Surgical wound infections are increasing in frequency. They have a negative effect on length of stay among intensive care unit (ICU) patients and patients on other wards.
Sevim Çelik, Çelik, Sevim
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Combined treatment with chlorhexidine and 0.9% saline in a newborn infant with an infected surgical wound

, 2016
Newborns are more susceptible to infection; this makes proper wound care extremely important in them. Unfortunately, in spite of successful surgery, patients can die as a result of wound area infections.
TEKGÜNDÜZ, Kadir Şerafettin, Yasar Demirelli, KARA, Mustafa, Kadir Serafettin Tekgunduz, Demirelli, Yaşar, Kepenekli, Eda, Caner, İbrahim, Eda Kepenekli, Mustafa Kara   +8 more
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