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Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999
Alicia J. Mangram,Teresa C. Horan,Michele L. Pearson,Leah Christine Silver,William R. Jarvis +4 more
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The “Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999” presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs), formerly called surgical wound infections, and replaces previous guidelines.Abstract:
The “Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999” presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s recommendations for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs), formerly called surgical wound infections. This two-part guideline updates and replaces previous guidelines.Part I, “Surgical Site Infection: An Overview,” describes the epidemiology, definitions, microbiology, pathogenesis, and surveillance of SSIs. Included is a detailed discussion of the pre-, intra-, and postoperative issues relevant to SSI genesis.read more
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National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Report, data summary from January 1992 through June 2003, issued August 2003.
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Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections
Dennis L. Stevens,Alan L. Bisno,Henry F. Chambers,Henry F. Chambers,E. Dale Everett,Patchen Dellinger,Ellie J. C. Goldstein,Sherwood L. Gorbach,Jan V. Hirschmann,Jan V. Hirschmann,Edward L. Kaplan,Jose G. Montoya,Jose G. Montoya,Jose G. Montoya,James C. Wade +14 more
TL;DR: It is the recommendation of this committee that patients with soft-tissue infection be distinguished by signs and symptoms of systemic toxicity (e.g., fever or hypothermia, tachycardia [heart rate,] and so on).
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Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Wound microbiology and associated approaches to wound management.
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Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery
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TL;DR: These guidelines were developed jointly by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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Perioperative Normothermia to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical-Wound Infection and Shorten Hospitalization
TL;DR: Maintaining normothermia intraoperatively is likely to decrease the incidence of infectious complications in patients undergoing colorectal resection and to shorten their hospitalizations.
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CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: A modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections
TL;DR: The definition of surgical wound infection was slightly modified and the name was changed to surgical site infection (SSI), which should be used by hospitals wishing to compare their SSI data with NNIS System data.
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The efficacy of infection surveillance and control programs in preventing nosocomial infections in US hospitals.
Robert W. Haley,David H. Culver,John W. White,W. Meade Morgan,T.Grace Emori,Van P. Munn,Thomas M. Hooton +6 more
TL;DR: It is found that the establishment of intensive infection surveillance and control programs was strongly associated with reductions in rates of nosocomial urinary tract infection, surgical wound infection, pneumonia, and bacteremia between 1970 and 1975-1976, after controlling for other characteristics of the hospitals and their patients.
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ASA Physical Status Classifications: A Study of Consistency of Ratings
TL;DR: The ASA Physical Status Classification is useful but suffers from a lack of scientific precision.
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CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: a modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections.
TL;DR: The definition of surgical wound infection was modified and the name was changed to surgical site infection (SSI) after the NNIS System hospitals had had considerable experience with the definitions.