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Postoperative chest wound infections in patients requiring coronary bypass. A controlled study evaluating
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|June 1, 1977
Abstract:
A controlled study investigating clean chest wound infections in 904 patients undergoing myocardial revascularization was performed. Four hundred fifty-one patients received systemic antibiotics before and after the operation, and 453 patients received no prophylactic systemic antibiotics. The infection rate was 1.10 per cent and 1.76 per cent, respectively, indicating no statistical difference between the two groups. Preoperative skin preparation and subsequent local antibiotic wound irrigation may be the most important factors in preventing clean wound infection.