We review all hospital recorders of the patients that was submitted to cardiac surgery with sternotomy at the Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal in period of six years. Fifteen patients (1.09%) developed mediastinitis in this period in a total of 1388 cardiac surgeries between January 1995 and March 2001. Sex, age, type of surgery, respirator time, ICU permanence, use of antibiotics and type of bacteria isolated were some variables analyzed.
Mediastinitis; Cardiac surgical procedures; Sternum; Osteomyelitis
