Surgical site infections have negative clinical and financial consequences. Mitigating these infections to protect patients and ASC bottom lines must be a priority for physicians and surgical care ...
The risk for surgical site infection varies by season and is linked with warm weather, according to findings recently published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. “At the institutional ...
As hospitals and health systems work to prevent surgical site infections — particularly in high risk abdominal surgeries, such as colorectal procedures, where patients face a significantly higher ...
Are we overlooking a critical factor in surgical site infections (SSIs)? In the quest for sterile operating rooms and antibiotic prophylaxis, a groundbreaking study suggests we've missed a vital piece ...
Delivering microdose incision-site injections of clindamycin significantly reduced the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) in skin cancer surgery. However, prophylaxis with flucloxacillin did not ...
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KCI, an Acelity Company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Company’s De Novo request for the PREVENA™ Incision Management ...
Implementing policies that require surgical staff to wear surgical jackets and bouffants in the operating room (OR) does not decrease the risk for surgical site infections (SSIs), according to a study ...
Obesity increases a patient’s risk for developing a surgical site infection, or SSI, although the extent of impact depends on the type of surgery, according to a recent study conducted in the ...
PolyPid Ltd. (NASDAQ:PYPD) on Monday announced topline results from its pivotal SHIELD II Phase 3 trial of D-PLEX100 to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs) in patients undergoing abdominal ...
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