Surgical Site Infections (SSIs)
Antibiotics sensitivity status and antibiogram patterns of aerobic bacterial isolates from surgical site infections
... Background: Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) are the third most common nosocomial ...post-operative SSIs show wide variations that lead to difficulties in empirical selection of the ...
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APSIC guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infections
... commonest surgical complications in pa- tients with pre-existing diabetes mellitus and hypergly- cemia is infection, with superficial surgical site infections (SSIs), deep wound ...
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Prophylactic antibiotics to prevent surgical site infections in Botswana : findings and implications
... Background and aims: Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery is known to reduce the rate of surgical site infections (SSI) as well as shorten hospital stay. However, there is currently a scarcity of data ...
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Underweight Body Mass Index as a Predictive Factor for Surgical Site Infections after Laparoscopic Appendectomy
... with surgical site infections (SSIs) af- ter laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) have been ...with SSIs has not been clearly ...predicting SSIs af- ter ...of SSIs was compared ...
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Study on surgical site infections in elective abdominal surgeries
... Surgical site infections (SSIs) are associated with any surgical procedure and represent a significant burden in terms of patient morbidity, inconvenience to surgeon and extended ...
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Surgical site infections in abdominal surgeries (surgeons nightmare) : a prospective study
... BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (ssi) are the third most commonly reported nosocomial infection and they account for approximately a quarter of all nosocomial ...of surgical wound, ...
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Incidence and risk factors of surgical site infections in elective abdominal surgeries
... OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS IN ELECTIVE ABDOMINAL SURGERIES’’ is a bonafide and genuine research work carried out by me under the guidance of ...
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Surgical site infections following instrumented stabilization of the spine
... that surgical site infections following instrumented fixation of the spine are usually early infections caused predominantly by coagulase- negative Staphylococci and fecal ...these ...
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Knowledge and Practice of Nurses regarding Prevention of Surgical Site Infections
... Surgical site infections are the infections which are acquired through the contact with health care providers such as nurses and doctors those working in the surgical ...wards. ...
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A Statewide Collaborative to Reduce Pediatric Surgical Site Infections
... reducing SSIs in children would be best established by an ...of SSIs in children, how- ever, especially in clean procedures such as the ones examined in the cur- rent study, would render an RTC very dif fi ...
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Evaluation of the surveillance of surgical site infections within the Dutch PREZIES network
... common surgical procedure groups with at least 50 SSIs due to power ...93,511 surgical procedures and 3,494 ...each surgical procedure ...of SSIs were estimated for alternative models ...
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Focus on the prophylaxis, epidemiology and therapy of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections and a position paper on associated risk factors: the perspective of an Italian group of surgeons
... of SSIs are diagnosed after discharge from the ...1-day surgical procedures is increasing over time ...of SSIs because of the very early dis- charge of surgical ...of SSIs is, ...
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Analysis of abdominal surgical site Infections
... abdominal surgical site infection, defined as redness, swelling, pain, temperature above 38°C, during the 30 days after ...sex, site operated, time of shaving, administration of prophylactic ...
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A standardized and safe method of sterile field maintenance during intra-operative horizontal plane fluoroscopy
... of surgical site infections is not yet ...is SSIs is based on the existing lit- erature of known risk factors and the logic that reducing these factors will lead to a reduction in infection ...
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Surgical site infections in Italian Hospitals: a prospective multicenter study
... The last section of the questionnaire was dedicated to the PDS, which reported information collected within 30 days after the operative procedure. Case ascertainment of postdischarge SSI was carried out using the ...
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Captive Nations: Measuring Economic Growth on Native American Reservations in California
... The day before surgery, families receive a phone call from the preadmission testing (PAT) nurse who will ask updated information regarding the patient. CNL students created a “Bathing Instruction Script”, that confirmed ...
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Anti-infective treatment in HIV-infected patients during perioperative period
... undergoes surgical treatment may ex- perience postoperative ...Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system, surgical site infections (SSIs) are the third most frequently ...
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Determinants of the effectiveness of antimicrobial prophylaxis among neurotrauma patients at a referral hospital in Kenya : findings and implications
... Surgical site infections (SSIs) increase morbidity, mortality and costs, and can be particularly problematic in low and middle income countries (LMIC) ...acquired infections, and can be ...
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Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae influences the outcome of early infections in liver transplant recipients
... post-transplantation. Infections were identi- fied through active surveillance in the LT ward, and through reviews of outpatient medical ...classifying infections were those proposed by the Centers for ...
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SSIs in Italy: Prevention and Surveillance during the Last Five Years
... Surgical site infections (SSIs) are recognized as a common surgical complication, occurring in about 2% - 5% of all surgical ...all infections observed in hospitalized ...
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