Surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance has rapidly grown in the ambulatory setting over the last decade, with the expansion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network’s (NHSN) Outpatient Procedure Component (OPC). OPC-SSI is designed to track and monitor SSIs in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and provide surveillance protocols and guidance.
Infection preventionists (IPs) play a vital role in healthcare, especially…
Protecting patient safety in the OR is everyone’s business. No…
The CDC’s healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevalence survey estimated that 110,800…