Peter Bischoff

TL;DR: 13 recommendations on preoperative preventive measures for surgical site infections are presented, taking into account the balance between benefits and harms, the evidence quality, cost and resource use implications, and patient values and preferences.

TL;DR: New guidelines for reducing health care associated infections related to surgery include 29 concrete recommendations distilled by 20 of the world’s leading experts from 26 reviews of the latest evidence to address the increasing burden of health careassociated infections on both patients and health care systems globally.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed evidence-based and expert consensus-based recommendations on the basis of an extensive list of preventive measures for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs).

TL;DR: The available evidence shows no benefit for laminar airflow compared with conventional turbulent ventilation of the operating room in reducing the risk of SSIs in total hip and knee arthroplasties, and abdominal surgery.

TL;DR: Implementation of single-patient rooms and easily accessible hand rub dispensers located near the patient’s bed are beneficial for infection control and are useful parts of a multifaceted strategy for reducing healthcare-associated colonization and infections.