Risk factors for wound infection in head and neck cancer surgery: A prospective study

Abstract

Despite antibiotic prophylaxis, WI occurrence is high. These data inform the head and neck surgeon, when a patient is at risk for WI and may help to design future prospective studies.

Comparative study of two cefazolin prophylactic protocols in oncologic surgery of the larynx: A randomized trial

“…Diabetes mellitus may be responsible for higher wound infection rates, but no effect of this disease on postoperative wound infection rates have been demonstrated. [1,13] Besides poor prognosis, advanced tumors are reported to have higher rates of postoperative wound infection when compared with lower stages [1,3,7]. In our study, literature, possibly due to the small number of studied cases in our study.…”

“…This supports not superior to a 2-day cefazolin prophylaxis regimen. In comparison to 1-day prophylaxis approaches, however, the infection rates were lower in our study, but this matter should be examined in larger studies [3,7]. In terms of the choice of antibiotic, we used cefazolin in contrast to other studies that administered other more widespread antibiotics [15,18].…”

“…Despite antibiotic usage the risk of infection can be as high as 41.8 [6,7]. The use of prophylactic antibiotics in head and neck surgery has been well reviewed and accepted in the surgical articles [2,8].…”

Prävention postoperativer Infektionen im Operationsgebiet

“…Verlängerte präoperative Verweildauer [65,66,97] bzw. verzögerter OP-Zeitpunkt bei Verletzungen [98] sind häufig mit einem erhöhten Risiko für Wundinfektionen verbunden.…”

Infección quirúrgica en cirugía maxilofacial

“…Los factores que de manera independiente se asocian a la infección son el tiempo de intervención, el grado de contaminación de la herida y la reintervención quirúrgica.La incidencia de infección aumenta a mayor puntuación del índice NISS. OR=7; CI 95%: 3,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]25), the contamination degree of the surgical wound (OR=7,20; CI 95%: 1,(25)(26)52) and surgical 29; CI 95%: 2,94) came up as the predictor factors of infection. The incidence of infection increases as NISS Index units raises (OR= 3,61; CI 95%: 2,60 …”