Wound infection after arterial surgical procedures

Surgical Wound Infections after Vascular Surgery: Prospective Multicenter Observational Study

“…One possible explanation for the high incidence of SWI in our study is the determination of SWI. Some studies (12,13) have defined a wound complication an infection only if there is a positive culture from the wound. We classified a wound complication as an infection if there were signs of infection even though the culture was negative.…”

Utility of Electrofusion for the Femoral Approach in Vascular Surgery: A Randomized Prospective Study

“…This result is comparable with the 3.5e7.6% rates reported in the literature. 5,11,26,28,30 Cutaneous disunions were observed in 14% of the electrofusion approaches and 15.3% of the conventional approaches (P ¼ 0.751). These observations are comparable with the results of Kent et al 28 and Swinnen et al 1 (3.8% and 30% of disunion).…”

“…4 Lymphatic complications such as seromas and lymphorrhea are also frequent, that is, up to 43%. 5 Other factors, related to the patients, influence healing, such as hypertension, diabetes, tobacco use, age, obesity, clinical stage of ischemia, or an iterative femoral approach. 6e9 Several techniques were proposed to reduce the incidence of these complications.…”

The Registration of Surgical Site Infections: A Comparison of Two Different Methods in Vascular Surgery

“…Surgical site infection is a frequent complication after vascular surgery and is associated with increased morbidity and substantial additional cost [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Adequate registration of such infection is therefore necessary for its timely, adequate, and reliable evaluation.…”