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The surgical wound in infrared: thermographic profiles and early stage test-accuracy to predict surgical site infection in obese women during the first 30 days after caesarean section

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2019
Prophylactic antibiotics are commonly prescribed intra-operatively after caesarean section birth, often at high doses. Even so, wound infections are not uncommon and obesity increases the risk.
C. Childs, N. Wright, J. Willmott, M. Davies, K. Kilner, K. Ousey, H. Soltani, P. Madhuvrata, J. Stephenson   +8 more
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Intra-Cavity Lavage and Wound Irrigation for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis

Surgical Infections, 2020
Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are costly and associated with poorer patient outcomes. Intra-operative surgical site irrigation and intra-cavity lavage may reduce the risk of SSIs through removal of dead or damaged tissue, metabolic waste ...
Howard Thom, G. Norman, Nicky J. Welton, E. J. Crosbie, Jane Blazeby, J. Dumville   +5 more
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Trichophyton as a Rare Cause of Postoperative Wound Infection Resistant to Standard Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2018
Fungal infections are rare causes of acute surgical wound infections, but Candida is not an infrequent etiology in chronic wound infections. Trichophyton species is a common cause of tinea capitis but has not been reported as a cause of neurosurgical ...
Sheema Gaffar, John K. Birknes, Kenji M. Cunnion   +2 more
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The microbiome of diabetic foot ulcers: a comparison of swab and tissue biopsy wound sampling techniques using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Health-care professionals need to collect wound samples to identify potential pathogens that contribute to wound infection. Obtaining appropriate samples from diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) where there is a suspicion of infection is of high ...
J. Travis, M. Malone, H. Hu, A. Baten, K. Johani, F. Huygens, K. Vickery, K. Benkendorff   +7 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
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The application of the modified surgical wound dressing in wound care after tracheotomy

Regenerative Medicine Research, 2017
Introduction: This study was performed to observe the efficacy of a modified surgical wound dressing applied as part of decannulation wound care after tracheotomy.
Feng Mei, Wu Ying, Zhu Jing, Wu Xiaoling
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Integrated bioinformatical and in vitro study on drug targets for liver cirrhosis based on unsupervised consensus clustering and immune cell infiltration

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Liver cirrhosis is one of the most common cause of death in the world. The progress of liver cirrhosis involves health, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, leading to great challenges in the diagnosis of the disease.
Qingjia Chi, Qingjia Chi, Di Wang, Ting Sun, Hua-Ping Liang   +4 more
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Does bariatric surgery prior to total hip or knee arthroplasty reduce post-operative complications and improve clinical outcomes for obese patients? Systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

, 2016
AIMS: Our aim was to determine whether, based on the current literature, bariatric surgery prior to total hip (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) reduces the complication rates and improves the outcome following arthroplasty in obese patients. METHODS:
Aboelmagd, T, Hing, CB, MacGregor, A, Smith, TO   +3 more
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Obesity as a risk factor following cadaveric renal transplantation [PDF]

, 1990
Obesity has generally been thought to increase the risk of operative mortality and postoperative complications in surgical patients. No data examining obesity as a factor in cadaveric renal transplantation were available.
Hakala, TR, Holley, JL, Lopatin, WB, Shapiro, R, Starzl, TE, Tzakis, AG   +5 more
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