Protecting patient safety in the OR is everyone’s business. No single group should shoulder the full responsibility for reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). In addition to infection preventionists, epidemiologists, and environmental services personnel, it is the duty of everyone involved in patient care to provide an optimal clean and aseptic surgical and procedural environment.
Infection preventionists (IPs) play a vital role in healthcare, especially…
Surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance has rapidly grown in the…
The CDC’s healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevalence survey estimated that 110,800…