[Sternum surgery as part of bypass surgery and saphenous vein surgery].
The author describes an operating guideline for local treatment in cases dealing with sternum surgery as part of bypass surgery and saphenous vein surgery in a post-anesthesia recuperation ward for patients having cardiac problems, trying to prevent and reduce the distinct local complications which can occur such as infection or dehiscence of a wound.
Castro
Juan Durán
JD
D.U.E., Unidad de Recuperación Cirugia Cardiaca, MEDTEC, Vigo, Pontevedra.
D000368:Aged; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000601:surgery*; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures