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Infection in wounds sutured in the accident and emergency department

1980; Elsevier BV; Volume: 9; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0196-0644(80)80110-7

1097-6760

W.H. Rutherford, Roy A. J. Spence,

Surgical site infection prevention

We describe a prospective follow-up study on suturing the wounds of 500 patients treated consecutively in an accident and emergency department. Results were established for 485 patients. Severe infection occurred in 2.47% of patients and there was redness and swelling, possibly from infection, in 4.53%, for a total of 7% of patients with signs of inflammation. The results are compared with previous studies and the techniques and problems of suturing wounds in the accident and emergency department are discussed.