Current Issues in Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Sep 2024)

Risk factors and skin colonization/recolonization – a matter in the development of sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery

  • Koziol Malgorzata Maria,
  • Czepinska Aleksandra,
  • Stazka Janusz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/cipms-2024-0030
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37, no. 3
pp. 183 – 189

Abstract

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Cardiac surgeries are classified as “clean procedures” as they do not involve access to any space populated by the patient’s microbiota. Nevertheless, the development of sternal wound infection (SWI) can sometimes occur. The aim of the study was to analyze risk factors of SWI, efficacy of antiseptics procedures, skin microbiota colonization/recolonization, and their impact on infection development in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

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