Case-control Studies on Relationship Between Surgical Wound Infection and Post-thoracotomic Nutritional Status
- VernacularTitle:剖胸术后营养状况与切口感染关系的探讨
- Author:
Liansheng LIU
;
Guoqiang ZHANG
;
Shaogang CUI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Thoracotomy;
Surgical wound infection;
Nutritional status Case-control studies
- From:
Journal of Chinese Physician
2000;0(11):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the relationship between the post-thoracotomic wound infection and nutritional status.Methods The patients treated with thoracotomy were divided into the simple wound infection group(n=15) as the experimental group and the phase Ⅰ healed group (n=15) as the control group.On the fifth day after operation, the sero-albumin quantity and cumulative nitrogen balance were recorded respectively. The statistical data were given the test.Results Every average index of sero-albumin in the experimental group was lower than the control group. Among them, the total protein comparison had statistical significance (P0 05) and transferrin comparison had statistical difference (P