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Table 2 Comparison of intraoperative characteristics of patients with and without surgical site infections

From: Surgical site infection after delayed sternal closure in neonates with congenital heart disease: retrospective case-control study

  

All (n = 188)

Surgical site infection

χ2

P value

No (n = 141)

Yes (n = 47)

Location of chest opening

CICU

34

27 (79.4%)

7 (20.6%)

0.431

0.512

Operating room

154

114 (74.0%)

40 (26.0%)

Foreign material placed

No

131

124 (94.7%)

7 (5.3%)

89.036

0.000

Yes

57

17 (29.8%)

40 (70.2%)

Duration of aortic cross-clamp

≤45 min

41

31 (75.6%)

10 (24.4%)

0.01

0.919

>45 min

147

110 (74.8%)

37 (25.2%)

≤55 min

132

121 (91.7%)

11 (8.3%)

65.651

0.000

>55 min

56

20 (35.7%)

36 (64.3%)

≤60 min

154

138 (89.6%)

16 (10.4%)

96.944

0.000

>60 min

34

3 (8.8%)

31 (91.2%)

  1. CICU cardiac intensive care unit, P < 0.05, Chi squared test