Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy has controversial advantages over traditional
open surgical approaches. Subjective concerns such as pain, dyspnea, physical functioning …

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), and the
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). This work represents an update to …

Elective surgery is usually preceded by preoperative diagnostics to minimize risk. The
results are assumed to elicit preventive measures or even cancellation of surgery. Moreover …

BACKGROUND: Lobectomy for patients with clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) can be performed by thoracotomy or by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery …

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has multiple indications for diagnosis and
treatment of many different thoracic diseases; the commonest are lung wedge resection …

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the study was to investigate allogeneic blood transfusion
(ABT) and preoperative anemia as risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI). STUDY …

MORE THAN 30 MILLION surgical procedures are performed annually in the United States,
and surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a major postoperative complication. ALTHOUGH …

OBJECTIVES: Competency in video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy is estimated
to be reached after the surgeon completes 50 cases. We wanted to explore the impact of …

Background To assess incidence and risk factors of surgical site infections (SSI)(wound
infection, pneumonia, empyema) in a monocentric series of patients undergoing lung …

Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most costly and second most frequent
healthcare-associated infections in the Western world. They are responsible for higher …