Key result
Emerging prevention strategies, such as preoperative bowel preparation and negative-pressure wound therapy, are challenging longstanding surgical practices to prevent surgical site infections.
Why the study?
Emerging prevention strategies, such as preoperative bowel preparation and negative-pressure wound therapy, are challenging longstanding surgical practices for surgical site infection prevention.
This clinical update summarizes current guidelines and emerging strategies, such as preoperative bowel preparation and negative-pressure wound therapy, for preventing surgical site infections.
May warrant cautious adoption of emerging SSI prevention bundles; leaves open the need for RCTs to update guidelines.
This JAMA Insights Clinical Update summarizes current guidelines for prevention of surgical site infections and discusses emerging prevention strategies, such as preoperative bowel preparation and negative-pressure wound therapy, that are challenging longstanding surgical practices.
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Fields et al. (2020) studied this question. Emerging prevention strategies, such as preoperative bowel preparation and negative-pressure wound therapy, are challenging longstanding surgical practices to prevent surgical site infections.
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