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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 73, 944-947, Copyright © 1977 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Postoperative chest wound infections in patients requiring coronary bypass. A controlled study evaluating prophylactic antibiotics

RD Sutherland, HE Martinez, WA Guynes and L Miller

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.


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