Supported by Grants-in-Aid from JSPS KAKENHI,No.JP 21K10715 and No.JP 20K10404;Northern Advancement Center for Science&Technology,No.T-2-2;the Yasuda Medical Foundation,No.31010316;the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications,No.41111042;Taiju Life Social Welfare Foundation,No.50811490;Japan Keirin Autorace Foundation,No.2023M-378;Project Mirai Cancer Research Grants,No.31010269;Takahashi Industrial and Economic Research Foundation,No.50411278;Sapporo Doto Hospital,No.50311211;Noguchi Hospital,No.40310551;Doki-kai Tomakomai Hospital,No.40710739;Tsuchida Hospital,No.50811478.
BACKGROUND Surgical site infections(SSIs)increase mortality,hospital stays,additional medical treatment,and medical costs.Subcutaneous drains prevent SSIs in gynecological and breast surgeries;however,their clinical i...
Supported by Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
AIM: To investigate whether a subcutaneous penrose drain would decrease the superficial surgical site infection (s-SSI) rate in elective colorectal surgery. METHODS: This is a comparative study of the historical contr...