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Skin Bacteriology and Surgical Wound Infection

Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1967
Transient and resident skin bacteria constitute a potent source of surgical wound contamination. Present methods of skin disinfection are efficient enough to result in 80% temporary sterility of the human skin. A study was underaken in search of further information on the skin bacteriology in relation to postoperative wound infection.
H, Silvola, P, Tala, R, Orko
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Surgical Wound Infections: Prospective Study of 4,468 Clean Wounds

Infection Control, 1987
AbstractA prospective four-year study on the infection rate of clean operative wounds is presented. From January 1982 to June 1985, a nurse epidemiologist and a medical team assessed 4,468 operative procedures, from the day of surgery to the patients' discharge from the hospital. The infection rate was 3.2%.
M J, Gil-Egea, M T, Pi-Sunyer, A, Verdaguer, F, Sanz, A, Sitges-Serra, L T, Eleizegui   +5 more
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Surgical wound assessment by sonography in the prediction of surgical wound infections

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2016
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are important sources of morbidity, prolonged hospital stays, and readmissions, so they have become a major economic burden. We hypothesized that surgical wound assessment by sonography (SWATS) used at the bedside would detect wound fluid collections and that the presence of such collections would predict SSI better than
Christopher D, Barrett, Arthur, Celestin, Emily, Fish, Charity C, Glass, Mariam F, Eskander, Rudy, Murillo, Georgi, Gospodinov, Alok, Gupta, Carl J, Hauser   +8 more
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Prevention of Infection in Surgical Wounds

New England Journal of Medicine, 1957
WOUND infection has become one of the most difficult surgical problems of the current decade.1 Widespread bacterial resistance and crossinfection of the hospital population have been observed repeatedly,2 , 3 and alleged by some to be penalties of indiscriminate use of antibiotics.4 , 5 Until eight months ago, it was believed at this hospital that ...
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Clean surgical wounds: prevention of infection

Nursing Standard, 2001
Nurses need to be aware of the principles of infection control and the factors affecting wound infection to develop effective strategies to prevent infection and cross-infection.
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Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.

American Journal of Medicine, 1991
D. Culver, T. Horan, R. Gaynes, W. Martone, W. Jarvis, T. Emori, Shailen N. Banerjee, J. Edwards, James Tolson, T. S. Henderson, J. Hughes   +10 more
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Haemostatic materials for wound healing applications

Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021
Baolin Guo, Ruonan Dong, Yongping Liang
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Identifying patients at high risk of surgical wound infection. A simple multivariate index of patient susceptibility and wound contamination.

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1985
R. Haley, D. Culver, W. M. Morgan, J. White, T. Emori, T. Hooton   +5 more
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Detecting surgical wound infections.

Professional nurse (London, England), 2002
A review of the literature on detecting wound infection revealed the need for an established definition and a consensus on the way of detecting infection. A unified approach would enable a clearer picture of wound infection in the UK to emerge.
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Surgical site infections in caesarean wounds

British Journal of Nursing
The increasing incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) following caesarean sections highlights the necessity for updated protocols that address risk factors throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative stages. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) and hydrocolloid dressings have demonstrated potential for improving wound ...
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