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Surgical Site Infection During Hospitalization and After Discharge in Patients Who Have Undergone Cardiac Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Marta Fernández-Ayala ,
Daniel N. Nan ,
Concepción Farinas-Álvarez ,
José M. Revuelta ,
Jesús González-Macías  and
M. Carmen Fariñas
Marta Fernández-Ayala
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Daniel N. Nan
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Concepción Farinas-Álvarez
Affiliation:
Division of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
José M. Revuelta
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Jesús González-Macías
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
M. Carmen Fariñas*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
*
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Avenida Valdecilla, sin numero 39008-Santander, Spain (mirfac@humv.es)
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Abstract

During a 13-month period, 513 patients who were scheduled to undergo cardiac surgery were prospectively observed for surgical site infection during hospitalization after surgery and for 1 month after hospital discharge. Fifty-three patients showed evidence of surgical site infection (during hospitalization for 31 patients and after discharge for 22). Multivariate analysis identified that risk factors for surgical site infection differed between infections that occurred during hospitalization and those that occurred after discharge.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 85 - 88
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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