TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Prevention of Surgical Site Infections A1 - Wainaina, J. Njeri A2 - Cohn, Steven L. PY - 2021 T2 - Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls AB - As recently as the early 20th century, infection after surgery and related mortality was considered nearly inevitable. With increasing acceptance of microbes as the cause of infection, the importance of antisepsis around surgical procedures, and increasing availability of antibiotics to treat postoperative infections and later for prophylaxis, the rate of infections related to surgery has dropped dramatically. However, surgical site infections (SSIs) remain the most common and most costly category of nosocomial infections, accounting for 20% of hospital-acquired infections. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1179530676 ER -