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Efficacy of universal preoperative decolonization with Polyhexanide in primary joint arthroplasty on surgical site infections. A multicenter before-and after-study

BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSI) are rare but severe complications after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Decolonization measures prior to elective orthopedic surgeries have shown to reduce the risk of SSI with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy of unive...

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Autores principales: Wandhoff, Björn, Schröder, Christin, Nöth, Ulrich, Krause, Robert, Schmidt, Burkhard, David, Stephan, Scheller, Eike-Eric, Jahn, Friedrich, Behnke, Michael, Gastmeier, Petra, Kramer, Tobias Siegfried
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7708093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33256845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00852-0