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Surgical Site Infection Prevention
JAMA, 2023ImportanceApproximately 0.5% to 3% of patients undergoing surgery will experience infection at or adjacent to the surgical incision site. Compared with patients undergoing surgery who do not have a surgical site infection, those with a surgical site infection are hospitalized approximately 7 to 11 days longer.ObservationsMost surgical site infections ...
Jessica L, Seidelman +2 more
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Surgical site infection surveillance
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2000Surgical site infection (SSI) is the third most commonly reported nosocomial infection and accounts for 14-16% of all nosocomial infections among hospital inpatients. A successful SSI surveillance programme includes standardized definitions of infection, effective surveillance methods and stratification of the SSI rates according to risk factors ...
E T, Smyth, A M, Emmerson
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Surgical Site Infections: The Cutting Edge
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 1998Surgical site infections are common and many are preventable. It is critical to understand the factors that influence these infections in order to create appropriate strategies to reduce this risk. Recent developments in this area and recommendations are presented.
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Prevention of surgical site infections
Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2006In the current era of pay-for-performance standards, the incidence of surgical site infections is increasingly becoming an institutional marker of quality assurance. Surgical site infections lead to increased morbidity and mortality in the surgical population and contribute to an already rising healthcare cost.
Traci L, Hedrick +2 more
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Preventing surgical site infections
Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2010The risk of surgical site infection (SSI) is approximately 1-3% for elective clean surgery. Apart from patient endogenous factors, the role of external risk factors in the pathogenesis of SSI is well recognized. However, among the many measures to prevent SSI, only some are based on strong evidence, for example, adequate perioperative administration of
Uckay, Ilker +5 more
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Surgical Hand Antisepsis and Surgical Site Infections
Surgical Infections, 2016Surgical site infections (SSI) remain a significant problem to both the patients and the healthcare system. Value care and standardized quality measures continue to promote improvement in surgical asepsis, but certain debates remain unresolved in the field of surgical hand antisepsis.Review of relevant accounts and literature.Controversy has existed ...
Brad S, Oriel, Kamal M F, Itani
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Surgical Site Infections after Thyroidectomy
Surgical Infections, 2006The history of thyroid surgery starts with Billroth, Kocher, and Halsted, who developed techniques for thyroidectomy between 1873 and 1910. Before 1950, the operative mortality rate approached 50%. The advent of general anesthesia and antisepsis and the development of fine hemostatic instruments rendered thyroid surgery safer, but the potential ...
DIONIGI, GIANLORENZO +4 more
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Prevention of surgical site infection
Nursing Standard, 2014Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common healthcare-associated infection that can cause patients extreme pain and discomfort, resulting in prolonged hospitalisation and additional costs to the NHS. Multidisciplinary team working, combined with audit and surveillance, early recognition of signs and symptoms of infection, and implementation of evidence ...
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Minimizing Surgical-Site Infections
New England Journal of Medicine, 2010Primitive ancestors of Homo sapiens and their colonizing bacteria have coevolved for approximately 500,000 years; some experts estimate that the total number of human cells is 1013 and the total number of colonizing microbes is 1014. Despite this 10-to-1 inequity, the balance of power is influenced by an intact human immune system and the integrity of ...
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A Woman With a Surgical Site Infection
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022Paul S. Jansson +5 more
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