Surgical Care Improvement / Surgical Infection Prevention - Content Areas and Article Options
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(Please Note: There are five subsections within this category, each highlighted in yellow.)
General
P. Grant, D. Wesorick. Perioperative Medicine for the Hospitalized Patient. Medical Clinics of North America, Volume 92, Issue 2, Pages 325-348.
Surgical Infection Prevention
Wolf JS Jr, Bennett CJ, Dmochowski RR, Hollenbeck BK, Pearle MS, Schaeffer AJ; Urologic Surgery Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Best Practice Policy Panel. Best Practice Policy Statement on Urologic Surgery Antimicrobial Prophylaxis. J Urol. 2008 Apr;179(4):1379-90. Epub 2008 Feb 20.
Harbarth S, Fankhauser C, Schrenzel J, Christenson J, Gervaz P, Bandiera-Clerc C, Renzi G, Vernaz N, Sax H, Pittet D. Universal Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus at Hospital Admission and Nosocomial Infection in Surgical Patients. JAMA. 2008;299(10):1149-1157.
Wilson et al. Prevention of Infective Endocarditis: Guidelines from the American Heart Association: a guideline from the American Heart Association Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group. Circulation 2007 Oct 9;116(15):1736-54.
Babkin, Yuri, Raveh, David, Lifschitz, Moshe, Itzchaki, Menachem, Wiener-Well, Yonit, Kopuit, Puah, Jerassy, Ziona and Yinnon, Amos M. (2007). Incidence and Risk Factors for Surgical Infection After Total Knee Replacement. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 39:10, 890 – 895.
Celik SE, Kara A. Does shaving the incision site increase the infection rate after spinal surgery? Spine 2007 Jul 1;32(15): 1575-7.
Calhoun, Jason H. Use of antibiotic prophylaxis in primary TJA. AAOS Board adopts advisory statement. AAOS Bulletin 2004 August.
Fletcher N, Sofianos D, Berkes MB, Obremskey WT. Prevention of perioperative infection. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 July 89-A:7:1605-18.
Shin Fujita; Norio Saito; Tetsuji Yamada; Yasumasa Takii; Ken Kondo; Masayuki Ohue; Eiichi Ikeda; Yoshihiro Moriya. Randomized, Multicenter Trial of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Elective Colorectal Surgery: Single Dose vs 3 Doses of a Second-Generation Cephalosporin Without Metronidazole and Oral Antibiotics. Arch Surg. 2007;142(7):657-661.
Hedrick TL, Heckman JA, Smith RL, Sawyer RG, Friel CM, Foley EF. Efficacy of protocol implementation on incidence of wound infection in colorectal operations. J Am Coll Surg 2007 Sep; 205(3): 432-8.
Hollenbeak CS, Lave JR, Zeddies T, Pei Y, Roland CE, Sun EF. Factors Associated With Risk of Surgical Wound Infections. Am J Med Qual 2006 Nov-Dec; 21(6 Suppl): 29S-34S.
Cardiac Complication Prevention
Fleisher et al. ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care For Noncardiac Surgery: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery). Circulation 2007 Oct 23;116(17):e418-99. Epub 2007 Sep 27.
Thromboembolic Complication Prevention
Brooks PJ, Keramati M, Wickline A. Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty With Epidural Analgesia. J Arthroplasty 2007 Aug;22(5): 641-3.
Eitz T, Schenk S, Fritzsche D, Bairaktaris A, Wagner O, Koertke H, Koerfer R. International Normalized Ratio Self-Management Lowers the Risk of Thromboembolic Events After Prosthetic Heart Valve Replacement. Ann Thorac Surg. 2008 Mar;85(3):949-54; discussion 955.
Eriksson BI, Dahl OE, Rosencher N, Kurth AA, van Dijk CN, Frostick SP, Prins MH, Hettiarachchi R, Hantel S, Schnee J, Buller HR, RE-NOVATE Study Group. Dabigatran etexilate versus enoxaparin for prevention of venous thromboembolism after total hip replacement: a randomised, double blind, non-inferiority trial. Lancet 2007 Sep 15; 370(9591): 949-56.
Spencer FA, Lessard D, Emery C, Reed G, Goldberg RJ. Venous Thromboembolism in the Outpatient Setting. Arch Intern Med. 2007; 167(14): 1471-1475.
Laporte S, Mismetti P, Décousus H, Uresandi F, Otero R, Lobo JL, Monreal M; RIETE Investigators. Clinical Predictors For Fatal Pulmonary Embolism In 15,520 Patients With Venous Thromboembolism: Findings From The Registro Informatizado De La Enfermedad Tromboembolica Venosa (RIETE) Registry. Circulation. 2008 Apr 1;117(13):1711-6. Epub 2008 Mar 17.
Respiratory Complication Prevention
American Thoracic Society and the Infection Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 171: 388-416.
Dodek P, Keenan S, Cook D, Heyland D, Jacka M, Hand L, Muscedere J, Foster D, Mehta N, Hall R, Brun-Buisson C. Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia. Ann Intern Med 2004 Aug 17; 141(4): 305-313.
Ferreyra GP, Baussano I, Squadrone V, Richiardi L, Marchiaro G, Del Sorbo L, Mascia L, Merletti F, Ranieri VM. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure For Treatment of Respiratory Complications After Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ann Surg. 2008 Apr;247(4):617-26.