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Prevention of surgical site infections

Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2006
In 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, Melissa M, Anastacio, Robert G, Sawyer   +2 more
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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 Hand Antisepsis and Surgical Site Infections

Surgical Infections, 2016
Surgical 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, 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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Prevention of surgical site infection

Nursing Standard, 2014
Surgical 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, 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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A Woman With a Surgical Site Infection

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
Paul S. Jansson, Kalen N. Wright, Scott A. Goldberg, Sarah Rae Easter, Susan R. Wilcox, Kathleen A. Wittels   +5 more
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Update on the Management of Surgical Site Infections

Antibiotics, 2022
Biagio Pinchera, Antonio Riccardo Buonomo, Nicola Schiano Moriello   +2 more
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Trained Immunity as a Preventive Measure for Surgical Site Infections

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2021
Jorge Dominguez-Andres, Mihai G Netea, Leo A B Joosten   +2 more
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Surgical Site Infections

Critical Care Nurse, 2019
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