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17.03.2016 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Does Preadmission Cutaneous Chlorhexidine Preparation Reduce Surgical Site Infections After Total Hip Arthroplasty?
verfasst von:
Steven S. Spires, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 7/2016
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Excerpt
While THAs enhance the quality of life, a surgical site infection (SSI) can be extremely costly and morbid, sometimes even negating the benefits of the surgery. As the number of elective arthroplasties are expected to increase, the pressure to reduce the risk of infection also grows. There are strong evidence-based recommendations, such as alcohol-containing operative site antisepsis, appropriate antimicrobial prophylaxis, and the maintenance of perioperative normothermia, that when combined into perioperative bundles (and executed well) can greatly reduce the risk of SSIs [
1]. In this lofty pursuit to further prevent infections, many are also performing additional interventions such as
Staphylococcus aureus decolonization and even empiric cutaneous antiseptic bathing as evaluated by Kapadia and colleagues. …