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PREVENTION OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION FROM THE HIPPOCRATIC PERIOD TO MODERN TIMES. A REVIEW
Dr. Asgar Nazir (MD)*, Dr. Umer Hamid Wani and Dr. Uzair Yousf Mir (MD)
ABSTRACT
Surgical site infections affect approximately 0.5%to 3%of patients undergoing surgery and are associated with longer hospital stays than patients with no surgical site infections. Avoiding razors for hair removal, maintaining normothermia, use of chlorhexidine gluconate plus alcohol–based skin preparation agents, decolonization with intranasal antistaphylococcal agents and antistaphylococcal skin antiseptics for high-risk procedures, controlling for perioperative glucose concentrations, and using negative pressure wound therapy can reduce the rate of surgical site infections. We searched PubMed, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane database for English-language studies of pathogenesis, clinical presentation, and prevention of surgical site infections published from January 1, 2016, when guidelines were most recently published by the WHO, to September Keywords: Surgical site infections, Unani system of medicine, The Canon of Medicine. [Download Article] [Download Certifiate] |