Negative-pressure sternal wound closure with interrupted subcuticular suturing and a subcutaneous drain tube reduces the incidence of poststernotomy wound infection after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
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DOI: 10.1007/s00595-019-01912-8
Abstract: Purposes To retrospectively evaluate the effect of negative-pressure sternal wound closure (NPSWC) with a subcutaneous closed drain tube on the sternal surgical site infection (SSI) incidence. Methods After propensity score matching of 231 patients undergoing… read more here.
Keywords: incidence; drain tube; negative pressure; pressure ... See more keywords