Patient Safety: Transforming an Established Perfusion Service Workgroup (Video)
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Guidelines recommend antibiotic prophylaxis 60 minutes before skin incision; however, it is unclear whether more precise timing would further reduce sternal wound infection. Our objectives were to examine the relationship between antibiotic timing and infection, test potential efficacy of optimal antibiotic timing in preventing infection, and determine whether patient comorbidity is related to timing and infection.
This paper presents two distinct forms of iatrogenic pulmonary artery rupture (PAR) treated endovascularly using different vascular devices.