Table 2.

Bacterial cultures from the postoperative deep infection, no of surgical revisions, time from index surgery to clinical healing of infection, antibiotic treatment length, no of HBO treatments, cost (Euro) of HBO treatment

Pat. no	Cultures	No revisions	VAC	No HBO	Time from index surgery to 1:st HBO months	Antibiotic treatment months	Clinically healed months	HBO cost Euro
1	Pseudomonas, Enterococcus, coagulase-neg. Staphylococcus	2	No	51	0.5	2	4	19 618
2	Morganella Morgani, coagulase-neg Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, Streptococcus	1	No	64	1	3	3	28 002
3	Staphylococcus, Enterococci	0	No	64	1.5	6	3	27 562
4	Staphylococcus	0	Yes	28	0.5	3	3	23 730
5	Staphylococcus, Bacteroides Fragilis	2	Yes	11 + 76	0	3	4	43 690
6	Staphylococcus, Klebsiella, Enterococcus	4	Yes	6 + 100	0	3	3	44 762
Mean		1.5		67	0.6	3.3	3.3	31 227
Median		1.5		64	0.5	3	3	27 772

VAC Vacuum-assisted closure