Multicenter Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial of Standard Abdominal Wound Edge Protection With Surgical Dressings Versus Coverage With a Sterile Circular Polyethylene Drape for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections - Concepedia

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Multicenter Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial of Standard Abdominal Wound Edge Protection With Surgical Dressings Versus Coverage With a Sterile Circular Polyethylene Drape for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections

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2014

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André L. Mihaljević, Rebekka Schirren, Mine Özer, Stephanie Ottl, Sybille Grün, Christoph Michalski, Mert Erkan, Carsten Jäger, Carolin Reiser–Erkan, Victoria Kehl,

Annals of Surgery

Abstract

Our trial shows that CWEPs are effective at reducing the incidence of SSIs in elective and clean or clean-contaminated open abdominal surgery.

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