RT Book, Section
A1 Wainaina, J. Njeri
A2 Cohn, Steven L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1179530676
T1 Prevention of Surgical Site Infections
T2 Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260468106
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1179530676
RD 2024/04/18
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.