%0 Journal Article
%T Chance to cut: defining a negative exploration rate in patients with suspected necrotizing soft tissue infection
%A Alexis L Woods
%A Amy H Kaji
%A Angela L Neville
%A Brant Putnam
%A Dennis Y Kim
%A Erin C Howell
%A Jessica A Keeley
%A Molly R Deane
%A Steven L Lee
%J Archive of "Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open".
%D 2019
%R 10.1136/tsaco-2018-000264
%X Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) are aggressive infections associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite multiple predictive models for the identification of NSTI, a subset of patients will not have an NSTI at the time of surgical exploration. We hypothesized there is a subset of patients without NSTI who are clinically indistinguishable from those with NSTI. We aimed to characterize the differences between NSTI and non-NSTI patients and describe a negative exploration rate for this disease process
%K necrotizing soft tissue infections
%K necrotizing fasciitis
%K diagnosis
%K debridement
%K negative exploration
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407535/