ALLMedicine™ Wound Infection Center

May 22nd, 2021 - Klebsiella pneumoniae infection has been associated with alcoholic and diabetic patient populations, especially in Asian populations. K. pneumonia wound infection is common, but K. pneumonia without wound osteomyelitis (OM) is relatively rare. How...

May 12th, 2021 - Broad and deep perianal wounds are challenging in both adult and pediatric ICUs. These wounds, if contaminated with gastrointestinal flora, can cause invasive sepsis and death, and recovery can be prolonged. Controlling the source of infection wit...

May 12th, 2021 - Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) frequently requires high-risk surgery that predisposes patients to complex wounds. Past studies have identified a variety of tumor characteristics as risk factors for wound infection (WI); however, physiologic characteris...

May 3rd, 2021 - Surgical-site infection (SSI) after spine surgery leads to increased length of stay, reoperation, and worse patient quality of life. We sought to develop a web-based calculator that computes an individual's risk of a wound infection following thor...

Apr 26th, 2021 - One of the complications of the surgical therapy for ankle fractures includes wound infection. This study aimed to evaluate postoperative function and clarify the risk factors associated with postoperative wound infection in patients receiving the...

Aug 16th, 2019 - Appropriate timing for closure of myelomeningocele (MM) varies in the literature. Older studies present 48 h as the timeframe after which infection complication rates rise. The objective of this guideline is to determine if closing the MM within 4...

May 22nd, 2021 - Klebsiella pneumoniae infection has been associated with alcoholic and diabetic patient populations, especially in Asian populations. K. pneumonia wound infection is common, but K. pneumonia without wound osteomyelitis (OM) is relatively rare. How...

May 12th, 2021 - Broad and deep perianal wounds are challenging in both adult and pediatric ICUs. These wounds, if contaminated with gastrointestinal flora, can cause invasive sepsis and death, and recovery can be prolonged. Controlling the source of infection wit...

May 12th, 2021 - Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) frequently requires high-risk surgery that predisposes patients to complex wounds. Past studies have identified a variety of tumor characteristics as risk factors for wound infection (WI); however, physiologic characteris...

May 3rd, 2021 - Surgical-site infection (SSI) after spine surgery leads to increased length of stay, reoperation, and worse patient quality of life. We sought to develop a web-based calculator that computes an individual's risk of a wound infection following thor...

Apr 26th, 2021 - One of the complications of the surgical therapy for ankle fractures includes wound infection. This study aimed to evaluate postoperative function and clarify the risk factors associated with postoperative wound infection in patients receiving the...

Apr 5th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Intra-wound vancomycin powder reduces gram-positive infection in operatively treated high-risk tibia fractures, according to an open-label randomized clinical trial. "Patients with a fracture around the knee or ankle fa...

Jan 12th, 2020 - Ileus is the most common early complication of RC. The most common late complications of RC are small-bowel obstruction and ureteroenteric anastomotic stricture. Other common complications following RC include the following: Wound infection Sepsis...

Dec 16th, 2018 - Over a 15-year period, there was a dramatic surge in the number of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who underwent cardiac surgery, new research reports. Investigators analyzed data from more than 5. 7 million US patients who underwent cardi...

Dec 16th, 2018 - Over a 15-year period, there was a dramatic surge in the number of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who underwent cardiac surgery, new research reports. Investigators analyzed data from more than 5. 7 million US patients who underwent cardi...

Nov 5th, 2018 - CHICAGO – Patients with an inflammatory arthritis had significantly higher rates of infections, transfusions, and readmissions following total knee replacement than did patients without inflammatory arthritis in a study of more than 137,000 Americ.