Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Aug 2017
Preoperative colonization in pediatric cardiac surgery and its impact on postoperative infections.
Patients with congenital heart defects are frequently hospitalized before surgery. This exposes them to a high risk for pathogen colonization. There are limited data on colonization prevalence in the pediatric cardiac population, and limited data concerning its potential role in the risk of developing infections after cardiac surgery. ⋯ The results of our study suggest that the impact of preoperative colonization on outcome and postoperative infections may be negligible; larger series are required to clearly define this issue.