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A Prospective Randomized Trial of Open Wound Treatment vs Occlusive Dressings in Elective Surgical Cases with Respect to Surgical Site Infections [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Background: Surgical wounds heal by primary intention in all the elective and emergency surgical procedures. Current practice is to place dressing over the closed wound before the patient leaves the sterile environment of the operating theatre ...
Anmol Grover, Amandeep Singh, D S Sidhu
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Association between Pre-Post Operative Procedure and Abdominal Surgical Infection [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Surgical wound infection remains an important problem following an operation. The risk of such infections is determined by technical problems with the operation, such of bleeding, the amount of devitalized tissue created, and the need for ...
Djami, A. F. (Aplonia ), Gero, S. (Sabina ), Liliweri, A. (Aloysius )   +2 more
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Addition of benzylpenicillin to antibiotic prophylaxis reduces deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery

Infection Prevention in Practice, 2021
Summary: Objectives: In Sweden, cloxacillin is recommended as the sole antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of surgical site infections after cardiac surgery.
Nadia Sandström, Anders Magnusson, Anders Wickbom, Örjan Friberg   +3 more
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Effect of Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Deep Surgical Site Infection After Surgery for Lower Limb Fractures Associated With Major Trauma: The WHIST Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Following surgery to treat major trauma-related fractures, deep wound infection rates are high. It is not known if negative pressure wound therapy can reduce infection rates in this setting.
Matthew L. Costa, J. Achten, R. Knight, Julie Bruce, Susan J Dutton, Jason Madan, M. Dritsaki, N. Parsons, M. Fernandez, Richard Grant, J. Nanchahal   +10 more
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Risk Factors of Surgical Site Infection at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [PDF]

, 2012
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common source of morbidity among operated patients. At Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), studies indicate that the rate of SSI has been increasing over the past thirty years.
Akoko, L.O., Fredrick, F., Mbembati, N.M., Mwanga, A.H.   +3 more
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4CPS-061 Antibiotic prophylaxis for preventing surgical wound infection after elective caesarean section: meta-analysis of clinical trials [PDF]

European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. Science and Practice, 2018
Panciroli C, Luoni A, Bignamini A, Minghetti P.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Effect of Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Surgical-Site Infection in Obese Women After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Obesity increases the risk of both cesarean delivery and surgical-site infection. Despite widespread use, it is unclear whether prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy reduces surgical-site infection after cesarean delivery in obese women.
M. Tuuli, Jingxia Liu, A. Tita, S. Longo, A. Trudell, E. Carter, A. Shanks, C. Woolfolk, A. Caughey, D. Warren, A. Odibo, Graham A Colditz, G. Macones, Lorie M. Harper   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dialkylcarbamoyl chloride (DACC)-coated dressings in the management and prevention of wound infection: A systematic review [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: Dialkylcarbomoyl chloride (DACC)-coated dressings (Leukomed Sorbact and Cutimed Sorbact) irreversibly bind bacteria at the wound surface that are then removed when the dressing is changed.
Bua, N., Carradice, D., Chetter, I.C., Harwood, A.E., Smith, G.E., Totty, J.P., Wallace, T.   +6 more
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A clinical study of risk factors and the management of surgical site infections in general surgical cases at tertiary care center: A two-year observational study

Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2022
Background: Surgical site infections penetrate to depths in tissues and cause simple superficial infections to sepsis. The aim of this study is to identify the incidence rate of surgical site infections and their risk factors at the surgical section of a
C Arunkumar, R. Chinnapan
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Requirements for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Acute Burn and Chronic Surgical Wound Infection

PLoS Genetics, 2014
Opportunistic infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be acute or chronic. While acute infections often spread rapidly and can cause tissue damage and sepsis with high mortality rates, chronic infections can persist for weeks, months, or years in
Keith H. Turner, Jake A. Everett, Urvish Trivedi, K. Rumbaugh, M. Whiteley   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source