Key result
A review of four major infection prevention guidelines outlines effective strategies that perioperative team members can implement to prevent surgical site infections.
Why the study?
Surgical site infections are a major cause of patient morbidity and mortality, increased hospital length of stay, and higher healthcare costs, requiring a multifaceted prevention approach across the perioperative continuum.
This review summarizes four major guidelines to provide a multifaceted approach for preventing surgical site infections across the perioperative continuum.
Multifaceted perioperative infection control may reduce SSIs; leaves open optimal bundle components for current practice.
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a considerable cause of patient morbidity and mortality and are associated with increased hospital lengths of stay as well as increased health care costs to both patients and health care facilities. Substantial advances have been made in infection control practices throughout the perioperative setting to prevent SSIs and improve patient quality of care. Preventing and reducing SSIs requires a multifaceted approach encompassing the continuum of medical and surgical care. This article reviews four major infection prevention guidelines and provides an updated summary of effective strategies that perioperative team members can implement for the prevention of SSIs preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively.
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Rosa et al. (2023) conducted a review in Surgical site infections. Infection prevention strategies was evaluated. A review of four major infection prevention guidelines outlines effective strategies that perioperative team members can implement to prevent surgical site infections.
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