Surgical site infections after orthopedics operation: Outbreak investigation and surveillance

'Operation zero' targets surgical site infections.

Cefazoline or Normal Saline Irrigation Doesn’t Reduce Surgical Site Infections After Cesarean

Introduction: Cesarean surgical site infection (SSI) occurs in 3% to 17% of patients who undergo cesarean delivery. SSIs increase postcesarean maternal morbidity and health costs and cause longer hospital stays. Therefore, we designed a study to assess the effects of normal saline and cefazolin irrigation on the incidence of SSIs. Methods: In this study, 200 participants were divided into 3 gr...

Surgical site infections occurring after hospital discharge.

Although surgical site infections (SSIs) occurring after hospital discharge cause substantial morbidity, their epidemiology is not well understood, and methods for routine postdischarge surveillance have not been validated. Inpatient and outpatient surveillance followed 5572 nonobstetric procedures among members of a health maintenance organization with extensive automated records. Records were...

Impact of a surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance program in orthopedics and traumatology.

UNLABELLED Surveillance of surgical site infections (SSI) is a priority. One of the fundamental principles for the surveillance of SSI is based on receiving effective field feedback (retro-information). The aim of this study was to report the results of a program of SSI surveillance and validate the hypothesis that there is a correlation between creating a SSI surveillance program and a reducti...

[Incidence of surgical site infections in the departments of orthopedics and traumatology].

BACKGROUND/AIM Besides infections of urinary tract and pneumonias, as well as blood infections, surgical site infections (SSI) represent one of the most common localization of hospital infections. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of SSI in the departments of orthopedics and traumatology as well as the SSI incidence in relation to the ASA score, surgical site contamination cl...