Observational studyAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2019
The surgical wound in infrared: thermographic profiles and early stage test-accuracy to predict surgical site infection in obese women during the first 30 days after caesarean section.
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- Synchronously in vivo real-time monitoring bacterial load and temperature with evaluating immune response to decipher bacterial infection.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2024Article
- Machine Learning Approaches for the Image-Based Identification of Surgical Wound Infections: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Use of Infrared Thermography in Medical Diagnosis, Screening, and Disease Monitoring: A Scoping Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Increases in local skin temperature correlate with spontaneous foot lifting and heat hyperalgesia in both incisional inflammatory models of pain.Pain reports · 2023Article
- Smartphone-based infrared thermography to assess progress in thoracic surgical incision healing: A preliminary study.International wound journal · 2023Article
- Cutaneous Perfusion Dynamics of the Lower Abdomen in Healthy Normal Weight, Overweight and Obese Women: Methods Development Using Infrared Thermography with Applications for Future Wound Management after Caesarean Section.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Data-Driven Technologies as Enablers for Value Creation in the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections: a Systematic Review.Journal of healthcare informatics research · 2023Review
- Infrared thermography can detect previsual bacterial growth in a laboratory setting via metabolic heat detection.Journal of applied microbiology · 2022Article
- Infrared Thermography in Wound Care, Surgery, and Sports Medicine: A Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Infection Probability Index: Implementation of an Automated Chronic Wound Infection Marker.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Medical Infrared Thermography in Odontogenic Facial Cellulitis as a Clinical Decision Support Tool. A Technical Note.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Abdominal Cutaneous Thermography and Perfusion Mapping after Caesarean Section: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Intrarater Reliability of Digital Thermography in Detecting Pin Site Infection: A Proof of Concept Study.Strategies in trauma and limb reconstructionArticle
- Current Use of Infrared Thermography in Orthopaedic and Bone or Joint Trauma Patients-Can We Identify Postoperative Infection? A Narrative Systematic Review.Strategies in trauma and limb reconstructionReview
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Abstract
Background: Prophylactic antibiotics are commonly prescribed intra-operatively after caesarean section birth, often at high doses. Even so, wound infections are not uncommon and obesity increases the risk. Currently, no independent wound assessment technology is available to stratify women to low or high risk of surgical site infection (SSI).Study Aim: to investigate the potential of non-invasive infrared thermography (IRT), performed at short times after surgery, to predict later SSI. Methods: IRT was undertaken in hospital on day 2 with community follow up (days 7, 15, 30) after surgery. Thermal maps of wound site and abdomen were accompanied by digital photographs, the latter used for wound assessment by six experienced healthcare professionals. Confirmatory diagnosis of SSI was made on the basis of antibiotic prescribing by the woman's community physician with logistic regression models derived to model dichotomous outcomes. Results: Fifty-three women aged 21-44 years with BMI 30.1-43.9 Kg.m Conclusions: IRT imaging of wound and abdomen in obese women undergoing c-section improves upon visual (subjective) wound assessment. The proportion of cases correctly classified using the wound-abdominal temperature differences holds promise for precision and performance of IRT as an independent SSI prognostic tool and future technology to aid decision making in antibiotic prescribing.
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