La infección asociada a fracturas (IAF) es una de las complicaciones más frecuentes y desafiantes del traumaortopédico, sin embargo, su importancia ha sido subestimada existiendo históricamente una falta de estandarización en su manejo. En los últimos años la evidencia científica disponible ha id...
Objective: To estimate the costs of antimicrobials in patients with surgical site infections (SSI). Method: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study with retrospective documentary analysis conducted at a tertiary public hospital with seven surgical rooms, averaging 750 surgeries per month.The micro-...
Objective: To characterize cases of Surgical Site Infections (SSI) in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasties. Method: A cross-sectional, retrospective, and quantitative study conducted in a public, teaching, and high-complexity hospital in the southern region of Brazil. Data collection took pl...
Objective: To describe the microbiota of the hands of the cardiac surgery team after surgical hand scrubbing and glove removal at the end of the surgical procedure, and to compare this with adherence to the recommended surgical scrubbing time. Method: An observational study was car-ried out at two poi...
OBJETIVO: mapear evidências científicas sobre a prevenção e o manejo precoce de infecção de sítio cirúrgico por telemonitoramento em pacientes cirúrgicos após alta hospitalar. MÉTODO: revisão de escopo desenvolvida conforme proposto pelo Instituto Joanna Briggs (JBI). Foi realizada a pesquisa...
Aim: To investigate the bacteriological profile of oral and maxillofacial infections and the pattern of sensitivity to a specific group of antibiotics in a reference emergency hospital in Brazil. Methods: This is a prospective cohort institutional study that studied patients affected by oral and/ or maxi...
Abstract Objective: to evaluate evidence on risk factors for the development of surgical site infection in bariatric surgery. Method: integrative review. The search for primary studies was performed in four databases. The sample consisted of 11 surveys. The methodological quality of the included stud...
Objetivo: Determinar las consecuencias del tipo de parto en las gestantes con cesárea anterior, atendidas en el Hospital Universitario “Dr. Luis Razetti”, Barcelona, estado Anzoátegui, durante octubre de 2019. Métodos: Estudio retrospectivo, con nivel descriptivo, de diseño de campo no experiment...
Abstract Objective Medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy (MOWHTO) significantly relieves pain in the medial joint line in medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee. But some patients complain of pain over the pes anserinus even 1 year after the osteotomy, which may require implant removal for reli...
