Open fractures and the incidence of infection in the surgical debridement 6 hours after trauma

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a time delay greater than 6h from injury to surgical debridement influences the infection rate in open fractures. METHODS: During a period of 18 months, from October 2010 to March 2012, 151 open fractures were available for study in 142 patients in our hospital. The...

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Autores principales: Fernandes, Miguel de Castro, Peres, Luciano Rodrigo, de Queiroz, Aristóteles Correia, Lima, José Queiroz, Turíbio, Flávio Moral, Matsumoto, Marcelo Hide
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4544519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26327794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-78522015230100932

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