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Surgical Clinics of North America, 1994
Wound infections continue to be an important entity in terms of use of time and medical resources. Currently, the following risk factors are known to strongly predispose to wound infection: pre-existing medical illness, prolonged operative time, wound contamination, and contaminated or dirty wounds.
R G, Sawyer, T L, Pruett
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Wound infection: Managing wound infection

Journal of Wound Care, 1996
Many dilemmas trouble clinicians working with infected and non-healing wounds and there is still considerable debate as to what the aim of treating such patients should be. Should it be to eradicate specific pathogenic organisms? Or should it be to reduce the bacterial burden present on open wounds?
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Wound Infection

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1986
Any consideration of infection following clean surgery, particularly cardiothoracic must include both exogenous and endogenous sources. The MRC Study on Hip Surgery presents a particular challenge. Although uncontrolled antibiotic prophylaxis reduced the infection rate almost as well as a laminar flow operating theater, further analysis of the data ...
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