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Critical care clinics · Oct 2013
ReviewPrevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Surgical Site Infections: Relevant Considerations for Critical Care Medicine.
- Charles de Mestral and Avery B Nathens.
- Division of General Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Avenue, K3W-28H, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada. Electronic address: charles.demestral@mail.utoronto.ca.
- Crit Care Clin. 2013 Oct 1;29(4):887-94.
AbstractSurgical site infection complicates 2% to 5% of all operative procedures. Many of the risk factors for the development of a surgical site infection (eg, old age, major comorbidity, emergency surgery) are present in patients typically requiring postoperative admission to the intensive care unit. This article reviews the risk factors and measures to prevent surgical site infection and diagnostic and management considerations relevant to critical care medicine.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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