caa a22 4500 397496567 CHVBK 20180308164522.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199503 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80064-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80064-8 Incidence of deep and superficial sternal infection after open heart surgery. A ten years retrospective study from 1981 to 1991 [Elektronische Daten] Between January 1981 and December 1991, 4137 adult patients underwentvarious cardiac procedures via a median sternotomy under cardiopulmonarybypass. The overall infection rate was 1.33%, including superficial woundinfections (SWI) (1.18%) and deep sternal infection (DSI) (0.145%).Pericardial and retrosternal suction drains with a vent allowed a betterdrainage of blood and serosities and probably contributed to our low DSIrate. Eleven factors predisposing to infection were evaluated by Fisher'sexact test. Only the operative urgency (P = 0.006), reexploration forbleeding (P = 0.00001) and preoperative renal failure (P = 0.0005) werestatistically significant. Twenty of our infected patients had no riskfactors for infection. When the risk factors described in the literaturewere applied to our infected patients, only one had no risk factor. © Springer-Verlag 1995 European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Elsevier Science B.V. 9/3(1995-03), 153-157 1010-7940 9:3<153 1995 9 ejcts https://doi.org/10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80064-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1010-7940(05)80064-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Elsevier Science B.V 9/3(1995-03), 153-157 1010-7940 9:3<153 1995 9 ejcts Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford