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Surgical wound infections.

Asepsis, 1990
At the last meeting of the SURGIKOS Operating Room/Infection Control Combined Advisory Panel, guest speakers reviewed current thinking and practices that have an impact on surgical wound infections. Presentation topics included the role of the CDC, nursing and classification systems in controlling wound infections; cost effective epidemiologic methods ...
L M, Harkavy, R W, Haley, C, Patterson
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Incidence of Wound Infection on the Surgical Services

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1975
A prospective wound surveillance program is a valuable clinical audit and research method. The clean wound infection rate is the most sensitive indicator of surgical technique.
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Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Wound Infections

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1982
Patients who undergo a surgical operation are at high risk of having one or more nosocomial infections. These infections develop in more surgical patients (8%) than in any other patient group, and about 70% of all nosocomial infections throughout the hospital develop in patients who have an operation.
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Clean surgical wounds: prevention of infection

Nursing Standard, 2001
Nurses need to be aware of the principles of infection control and the factors affecting wound infection to develop effective strategies to prevent infection and cross-infection.
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A surgical wound infection?

The Lancet, 2000
M, Ogon, N T, Sepp, C, Wimmer, H, Behensky   +3 more
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Surgical site infections in caesarean wounds

British Journal of Nursing
The increasing incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) following caesarean sections highlights the necessity for updated protocols that address risk factors throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative stages. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) and hydrocolloid dressings have demonstrated potential for improving wound ...
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Effect of Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Surgical-Site Infection in Obese Women After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2020
George A Macones, Aaron B Caughey, Graham Andrew Colditz   +2 more
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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
Florence Dedey, Sanjeev Misra, Suraj Surendran   +2 more
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The Timing of Prophylactic Administration of Antibiotics and the Risk of Surgical-Wound Infection

New England Journal of Medicine, 1992
John P Burke, David C Classen, Stanley L Pestotnik   +2 more
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Perioperative Normothermia to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical-Wound Infection and Shorten Hospitalization

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
Andrea Kurz, Daniel Sessler, Rainer Lenhardt   +2 more
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