Pediatric surgical wound infections

Healthcare-associated infections in pediatric cancer patients: results of a prospective surveillance study from university hospitals in Germany and Switzerland

“…Patients who developed deep infections were more likely to undergo amputation (odds ratio [OR] 24.0; 95% CI 5.1–114.0; P < 0.001) and were less likely to have good functional outcomes (OR 0.02; 95%CI 0.002–0.15; P < 0.001). Different strategies of antimicrobial prophylaxis and antibacterial management in tumor-related orthopedic surgery may – as well as in other surgical interventions [ 37 ] – be evaluated prospectively in future studies [ 38 ].…”