RT Journal
A1 Bickel A, Eitan A
T1 SUpplemental oxygen and surgical site infection—reply
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2011
FD October 1
VO 146
IS 10
SP 1221
OP 1223
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2011.291
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2011.291
AB 
The issue of hyperoxygenation and wound site infection is controversial and well discussed in the medical literature. The reasons for a surgical site infection are multifactorial, and the data interpretation can be affected by many factors. Our aim was to further illuminate the subject by choosing to study as homogenous as possible a population of patients with a surgical site infection associated with the right lower incision for acute appendicitis. In light of our introduction and expanded Comment section, we cannot ignore feeling that Dr Sessler's comments regarding the hypothesis and our clinical trial's registration are somehow surprising and “curious.”