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Methods for identifying surgical wound infection after discharge from hospital: a systematic review. [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2006 Background: Wound infections are a common complication of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. The global trend towards reducing length of hospital stay post-surgery and the increase in day case surgery ...
AJ Mangram +19 more
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The Timing of Prophylactic Administration of Antibiotics and the Risk of Surgical-Wound Infection [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 1992 BACKGROUND Randomized, controlled trials have shown that prophylactic antibiotics are effective in preventing surgical-wound infections. However, it is uncertain how the timing of antibiotic administration affects the risk of surgical-wound infection in ...
David C. Classen +5 more
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Incidence rate and risk factors of surgical wound infection in general surgery patients: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Int Wound J, 2023 Hospital‐acquired infections (HAIs) are considered a major challenge in health care systems. One of the main HAIs, playing an important role in increased morbidity and mortality, is surgical wound infection.
Ashoobi MT +9 more
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Supplemental Perioperative Oxygen to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical-Wound Infection [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2000 BACKGROUND Destruction by oxidation, or oxidative killing, is the most important defense against surgical pathogens and depends on the partial pressure of oxygen in contaminated tissue.
Robert Greif +4 more
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2010 Purpose. To identify risk factors associated with surgical wound infection in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) undergoing surgery for orthopaedic trauma. Methods.
Anani Abalo +5 more
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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021 Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) are a major cause of hospitalization and can lead to lower extremity amputation. In this pilot study, we used a multiomics approach to explore the host–microbe complex within DFIs.
Michael Radzieta +9 more
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Prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy in patients with closed surgical wound: An integrative review [PDF]
, 2023 Surgical site infection is the leading healthcare-associated infection and a major contributor to rising healthcare costs. Implementation of measures to reduce this problem, particularly the prophylactic use of negative pressure wound therapy, may be an ...
Carmo, André +3 more
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Using vacuum in the treatment of surgical wounds complications [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Background/Aim. Using vacuum in medicine has been known from long ago, however, it has not been used for the treatment of wounds. The first experiments in this field were performed by Wagner Fleischmann, University of Ulm, Ulm, West Germany, in 1993 ...
Drašković Miroljub +4 more
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A review on caring of surgical wound after surgical procedure [PDF]
, 2023 Inadequate wound healing and scar formation continues to be major issues in day-to-day surgical practice. A wound infection (like pus formation, smelly discharge, and the incision line’s opening etc.) is one of them complications of surgical procedure ...
Kumar, Dheeraj, Singh, Mahendra
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Multi-modal Wound Classification using Wound Image and Location by Deep Neural Network [PDF]
Sci Rep 12, 20057 (2022), 2021 Wound classification is an essential step of wound diagnosis. An efficient classifier can assist wound specialists in classifying wound types with less financial and time costs and help them decide an optimal treatment procedure. This study developed a deep neural network-based multi-modal classifier using wound images and their corresponding locations
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