Prevention and management of sternal wound infections

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: harold.l.lazar@gmail.com.
² Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass.
⁴ Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Harold L Lazar et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016 Oct.

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. 2016 Oct;152(4):962-72.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.01.060. Epub 2016 Aug 8.

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: harold.l.lazar@gmail.com.
² Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass.
⁴ Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Keywords: guidelines; prevention; sternal wound infection; treatment.

Comment in

Rules and tools: The impact of policy and consensus statements on sternal infection.
Balsam LB, DeAnda A Jr. Balsam LB, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016 Oct;152(4):973-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.01.041. Epub 2016 Feb 12. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016. PMID: 26952927 No abstract available.