Surgical-site infection after cardiac surgery: incidence, microbiology, and risk factors.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 26(5): 466-72, 2005 May.
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| ID: mdl-15954485
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To identify risk factors associated with surgical-site infection according to the depth of infection, the cardiac procedure, and the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System risk index.DESIGN:
Prospective survey conducted during a 12-month period.SETTING:
A 48-bed cardiac surgical department in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS Patients admitted for cardiac surgery between February 2002 and January 2003.RESULTS:
Surgical-site infections were diagnosed in 3% of the patients (38 of 1,268). Of the 38 surgical-site infections, 20 were superficial incisional infections and 18 were mediastinitis for incidence rates of 1.6% and 1.4%, respectively. Cultures were positive in 28 cases and the most commonly isolated pathogen was Staphylococcus. A National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System risk index score of 2 or greater was associated with a risk of surgical-site infection (relative risk, 2.4; P < .004). Heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory assistance, coronary artery bypass graft with the use of internal mammary artery, and reoperation for cardiac tamponade or pericard effusion were independent risk factors associated with surgical-site infection.CONCLUSIONS:
Data surveillance using incidence rates stratified by cardiac procedure and type of infection is relevant to improving infection control efforts. Risk factors in patients who developed superficial infection were different from those in patients who developed mediastinitis. Coronary artery bypass graft using internal mammary artery was associated with a high risk of surgical-site infection, and independent factors such as reoperation for cardiac tamponade or pericard effusion increased the risk of infection.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecção da Ferida Cirúrgica
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Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Torácicos
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article