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Evidence update on prevention of surgical site infection [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose of review: surgical site infection (SSI) is a common health care associated infection and complicates up to 10-20% of operations with considerable health care resources.
Astagneau +42 more
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The Socioeconomic Impact of Surgical Site Infections
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Précis: Surgical site infections are an ever-increasing phenomenon worldwide due to different factors. This brief report aimeds to highlight at a glance, for both physicians and political and institutional leaders, the economic burden of surgical site ...
Emmanuel Piednoir +5 more
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Risk factors for central venous catheter-related infections in surgical and intensive care units. The Central Venous Catheter-Related Infections Study Group. [PDF]
, 1994 To identify avoidable risk factors for central venous catheter (CVC) infections in patients undergoing short-term ...
Cozzi Lepri, A, Moro, ML, Viganò, EF
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Management of deep space infections of the neck [PDF]
, 2018 Infections of the deep neck spaces often present a clinical challenge for the ENT surgeon. Management of these complex suppurations of the neck requires in fact a multidisciplinary approach due to possible complications like mediastinitis, septic shock ...
Bălălău, Cristian +9 more
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The OneTogether collaborative approach to reduce the risk of surgical site infection: identifying the challenges to assuring best practice [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Surgical site infections (SSI) account for 16% of healthcare associated infections, and are associated with considerable morbidity, mortality and increased costs of care.
Gallagher, Rose +4 more
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Preventing Surgical Site Infections [PDF]
Clinical Medicine & Research, 2004 Over the past 50 years, increased interest in the discipline of surgical infection has resulted in advances in post-surgical infection control. Early investigations focused on the importance of anaerobic microflora to postoperative infection and paved the way for significant improvements in prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic treatment of surgical ...
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The Professional Medical Journal, 2015 Wound infection can be defined as invasion of organisms through tissuesfollowing a breakdown of local and systemic host defenses. The basic principles of wound careand antisepsis introduced during the past century improved surgery dramatically.
Jamshed Bashir +3 more
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International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2022 Background: Post caesarean section surgical site infections continue to be the problem of wound management that contribute to high maternal morbidity. This study assessed the prevalence of post caesarean section surgical site infections and the influence
Elizabeth Gabriel Peter, Saada Ali Seif
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The detection of wound infection by ion mobility chemical analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Surgical site infection represents a large burden of care in the National Health Service. Current methods for diagnosis include a subjective clinical assessment and wound swab culture that may take several days to return a result.
Bechar, Janak +4 more
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Methods for identifying surgical wound infection after discharge from hospital: a systematic review. [PDF]
, 2006 Background: Wound infections are a common complication of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. The global trend towards reducing length of hospital stay post-surgery and the increase in day case surgery ...
AJ Mangram +19 more
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