TY - GEN AU - Enas Said ALtohamy AU - Amal Fakhry Garass , AU - Suzan Atteya Abdelsayed , TI - Risk factors for surgical site infections among patients with open heart surgery in national heart institute / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Enas Said ALtohamy , KW - open heart surgeries KW - Postoperative wound complication KW - Postoperative wound infection KW - Risk factors KW - Surgical site infections N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Nursing Science; Issued also as CD N2 - Sternal wound infection (SWI) after cardiac surgery is infrequent , its consequences are seriousThe purposes of this study were to define the risk factorsRetrospective analysis for 326 patients who underwent cardiac surgery was performedThe patients were divided into the SWI group (n=15) and the non - infection group (n=311) Preoperative , perioperative , and postoperative variables were compared between the two groups using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis ER -