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Preventing surgical site infections

Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2010
The 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, Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen, Peter, Robin, Lew, Daniel Pablo, Hoffmeyer, Pierre, Pittet, Didier   +5 more
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Surgical site infection surveillance

Journal of Hospital Infection, 2000
Surgical 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 after Thyroidectomy

Surgical Infections, 2006
The 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, ROVERA, FRANCESCA ANGELA, BONI, LUIGI, CASTANO, PATRIZIA, DIONIGI, RENZO   +4 more
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Minimizing Surgical-Site Infections

New England Journal of Medicine, 2010
Primitive 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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Surgical Site Infections: The Cutting Edge

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 1998
Surgical 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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Surgical Site Infections

Surgery (Oxford), 2023
A. Walker, M. Wilson
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Preventing Surgical Site Infections

AORN Journal, 2023
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Routine sterile glove and instrument change at the time of abdominal wound closure to prevent surgical site infection (ChEETAh): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial in seven low-income and middle-income countries

Lancet, The, 2022
Adesoji O Ademuyiwa, Adewale O Adisa, Peter Brocklehurst   +2 more
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Dexamethasone and Surgical-Site Infection

New England Journal of Medicine, 2021
Tomas B Corcoran, Allen C Cheng, Kate Leslie   +2 more
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Surgical Site Infection Prevention

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2023
Arthur W Baker, Deverick J Anderson
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