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Infections after breast cancer surgery

February 6, 2008 on 10:40 pm | In Cancer |

More than one person in 20 in the context of the chest after surgery cutting of infections among sites, according to a study published Monday, a frequent complication of thought.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the course of infection distance of thoracic surgery at 2 per cent, whereas in previous investigations anywhere between 1 percent and 28 percent.

In two years, the study published in the edition of this month of Archives of Surgery, 50, or 5.3 percent, almost 950 patients developed infections within one year of its proceedings, and this is within and outside the hospital. The average time between surgery and the infection was 47 days.

“The surgical site infection rates in the chest after the operation seemed far more important than those reported nationally, the incidence of 2%, much higher than expected, which is unique to surgical procedures,” Margaret Olsen of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wrote your report.

Olsen asked to exercise the utmost vigilance hospitals, ensuring good preventive antibiotics administered before the operation, the maintenance of strict hand hygiene and to ensure removal of the wound drains.

The cost for the monitoring of health care are widespread, but it was confirmed by the study of approximately $ 4000 per patient.

Infections were at the heart of the costs of emergency an increase of drug-resistant staph infections contract both inside and outside hospitals.

About one in eight women in the study, which removes a cancerous breast, and was then to reconstruct the breast implant developed an infection. The infection was 7% among those in the reconstruction of the chest, with tissues of the abdomen, which was also an area where infections impressed.