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Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care
Early burn excision and skin grafting have been essential to improving patient outcomes following a burn injury. However, there remain significant barriers to recovery for burn patients, especially in the post-discharge period, as follow-up care is essential to the timely identification of complicat...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774678 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25450 |
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description | Early burn excision and skin grafting have been essential to improving patient outcomes following a burn injury. However, there remain significant barriers to recovery for burn patients, especially in the post-discharge period, as follow-up care is essential to the timely identification of complications. While the infection is a common complication of a post-burn wound, Providencia rettgeri is an uncommon bacterial pathogen that rarely causes wound infections. Although P. rettgeri has been infrequently reported as a cause of wound infections, it is a pathogen with growing clinical significance due to innate and acquired mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance that may complicate patient treatment. While our report describes the clinical outcome of a patient with a wound infection with Providencia rettgeri, it also represents a case that underscores the importance of social determinants of health in the care of burn patients. This is a case report of an elderly male who sustained burns to his bilateral arms and back and was subsequently readmitted to our burn unit for graft loss associated with a Providencia rettgeri wound infection. His readmission required multiple operations to resect necrotic tissue and nonviable graft due to delayed wound healing and incomplete graft take. Inadequate access to transportation led to significantly delayed follow-up for this patient. |
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spelling | pubmed-92392922022-06-29 Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care Huff, Mallorie L Blome-Eberwein, Sigrid Cureus Plastic Surgery Early burn excision and skin grafting have been essential to improving patient outcomes following a burn injury. However, there remain significant barriers to recovery for burn patients, especially in the post-discharge period, as follow-up care is essential to the timely identification of complications. While the infection is a common complication of a post-burn wound, Providencia rettgeri is an uncommon bacterial pathogen that rarely causes wound infections. Although P. rettgeri has been infrequently reported as a cause of wound infections, it is a pathogen with growing clinical significance due to innate and acquired mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance that may complicate patient treatment. While our report describes the clinical outcome of a patient with a wound infection with Providencia rettgeri, it also represents a case that underscores the importance of social determinants of health in the care of burn patients. This is a case report of an elderly male who sustained burns to his bilateral arms and back and was subsequently readmitted to our burn unit for graft loss associated with a Providencia rettgeri wound infection. His readmission required multiple operations to resect necrotic tissue and nonviable graft due to delayed wound healing and incomplete graft take. Inadequate access to transportation led to significantly delayed follow-up for this patient. Cureus 2022-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9239292/ /pubmed/35774678 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25450 Text en Copyright © 2022, Huff et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Plastic Surgery Huff, Mallorie L Blome-Eberwein, Sigrid Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care |
title | Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care |
title_full | Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care |
title_fullStr | Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care |
title_short | Providencia rettgeri Infection Compromising Post-Burn Recovery: A Lesson in the Importance of Follow-Up Care |
title_sort | providencia rettgeri infection compromising post-burn recovery: a lesson in the importance of follow-up care |
topic | Plastic Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774678 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25450 |
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