In cardiovascular surgery, the most common and serious complication is postoperative wound infection. The most formidable wound complication is mediastinitis, the frequency of which varies from 1 to 3%. Currently, mortality in this group of patients varies from 3.5 to 58.3%. In this regard, the relevance of developing new methods for the prevention and treatment of infectious wound complications is beyond doubt. In this study, it is supposed to examine and evaluate the effectiveness of the combined effects of air-plasma flow and nitric oxide in the treatment of postoperative infectious complications in cardiac surgery.
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Death
Timeframe: 30 days
Re-infection of the wound
Timeframe: 30 days
Skin suture incompetence
Timeframe: 30 days
Recovery
Timeframe: 30 days