Prevention of surgical site infections

Katherine Mockford; Helen O'Grady

doi:10.1016/j.mpsur.2017.06.012

Prevention of surgical site infections

Katherine Mockford, Helen O'Grady

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Abstract

Surgical site infections (SSI) are a major healthcare burden throughout the world and prevention is paramount in reducing the impact of this common category of healthcare associated infection. SSI may be classified as superficial incisional, deep incisional or organ/space and are caused by both patient and procedural factors. UK guidelines on prevention were published in 2008 and the World Health Organization has recently published guidelines in 2016 which are summarized here.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	495-499
Number of pages	5
Journal	Surgery (United Kingdom)
Volume	35
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpsur.2017.06.012
Publication status	Published - Sep 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Hospital acquired infection
prevention
surgical site infection
wound sepsis

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