AIMC Topic: Surgical Wound Infection

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Healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis in a neuro-ICU: Incidence and risk factors selected by machine learning approach.

Journal of critical care Mar 23, 2018
PURPOSE: To define the incidence of healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis (HAVM) in the neuro-ICU and to identify HAVM risk factors using tree-based machine learning (ML) algorithms.
Middle Aged Postoperative Complications Adolescent Incidence Young Adult Adult Male Meningitis, Bacterial Russia Craniotomy Cerebral Ventriculitis Child, Preschool Child Surgical Wound Infection Cross Infection Humans Machine Learning Prospective Studies Intensive Care Units Female Risk Factors
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Subcutaneous cefazolin to reduce surgical site infections in a porcine model.

The Journal of surgical research Dec 28, 2017
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) pose a significant health and financial burden. A key aspect of appropriate prophylaxis is the administration of antibiotics intravenously (IV). However, subcutaneous administration of antibiotics is not we...
Cefazolin Swine Anti-Bacterial Agents Injections, Subcutaneous Female Disease Models, Animal Animals Surgical Wound Infection
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Continuous betadine-bacitracin irrigation for vascular graft infections: A case series.

Journal of vascular nursing : official publication of the Society for Peripheral Vascular Nursing Nov 9, 2017
The aim of the study was to conduct a retrospective chart review of patients who underwent betadine/bacitracin continuous irrigation (BBCI) for vascular graft infections (VGIs) to review its use as a treatment option. A retrospective chart review fro...
Vascular Surgical Procedures Anti-Infective Agents, Local Humans Bacitracin Retrospective Studies Povidone-Iodine Female Surgical Wound Infection Male Femoral Artery Middle Aged Treatment Outcome
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Single-incision robotic cholecystectomy is associated with a high rate of trocar-site infection.

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS Sep 6, 2017
BACKGROUND: Single-incision robotic cholecystectomy has been developed to decrease post-operative pain and improve cosmetic results.
Humans Retrospective Studies Female Postoperative Complications Length of Stay Treatment Outcome Age Factors Aged Adult Male Middle Aged Surgical Instruments Cholecystectomy Robotic Surgical Procedures Surgical Wound Infection Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic Postoperative Period Operative Time Robotics Laparoscopy
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Accelerating Chart Review Using Automated Methods on Electronic Health Record Data for Postoperative Complications.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium Feb 10, 2017
Manual Chart Review (MCR) is an important but labor-intensive task for clinical research and quality improvement. In this study, aiming to accelerate the process of extracting postoperative outcomes from medical charts, we developed an automated post...
Surgical Wound Infection Medical Audit Humans Machine Learning Sepsis Algorithms Electronic Health Records Shock, Septic Postoperative Complications Pneumonia Urinary Tract Infections
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Natural language processing to ascertain two key variables from operative reports in ophthalmology.

Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety Jan 3, 2017
PURPOSE: Antibiotic prophylaxis is critical to ophthalmology and other surgical specialties. We performed natural language processing (NLP) of 743 838 operative notes recorded for 315 246 surgeries to ascertain two variables needed to study the compa...
Posterior Capsular Rupture, Ocular Intraoperative Complications Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic Comparative Effectiveness Research Predictive Value of Tests Natural Language Processing Cataract Extraction Feasibility Studies Surgical Wound Infection Injections, Intraocular Antibiotic Prophylaxis Humans Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Detection of clinically important colorectal surgical site infection using Bayesian network.

The Journal of surgical research Oct 5, 2016
BACKGROUND: Despite extensive efforts to monitor and prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), real-time surveillance of clinical practice has been sparse and expensive or nonexistent. However, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (i...
Medical Audit Colorectal Surgery Bayes Theorem Surgical Wound Infection Quality Improvement Humans Retrospective Studies Natural Language Processing
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Predicting ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection in children with hydrocephalus using artificial neural network.

Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery Sep 14, 2016
OBJECTIVES: The relationships between shunt infection and predictive factors have not been previously investigated using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model. The aim of this study was to develop an ANN model to predict shunt infection in a group of...
Child, Preschool Infant, Newborn Child Risk Factors Hydrocephalus Humans Male Surgical Wound Infection Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infant Neural Networks, Computer Female
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Novel concept of cleanliness of instruments for robotic surgery.

The Journal of hospital infection Apr 22, 2016
Humans Robotics Disinfection Surgical Wound Infection Surgical Procedures, Operative Surgical Instruments
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Data-driven Temporal Prediction of Surgical Site Infection.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium Nov 5, 2015
Analysis of data from Electronic Health Records (EHR) presents unique challenges, in particular regarding nonuniform temporal resolution of longitudinal variables. A considerable amount of patient information is available in the EHR - including blood...
Digestive System Surgical Procedures Machine Learning Humans Electronic Health Records Support Vector Machine Surgical Wound Infection
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