Background Perioperative infection and sepsis are of fundamental concern to perioperative
clinicians. However, standardised endpoints are either poorly defined or not routinely …

Background Clinical indicators are powerful tools to quantify the safety and quality of patient
care. Their validity is often unclear and definitions extremely heterogeneous. As part of the …

In this issue of British Journal of Anaesthesia, Barnes and colleagues 1 present consensus
definitions of standardised end points in perioperative medicine for infection and sepsis. The …

Abstract Background The Sepsis-3 guidelines diagnose sepsis based on organ dysfunction
in patients with either proven or suspected infection. The objective of this study was to …

Objective: To assess the validity, reliability and sensitivity of the ASEPSIS scoring system,
used to assess non-cardiac related surgery for surgical wound infection. Method: Five …

Background: A substantial proportion of operative procedures are complicated by infections,
either remote from or related to the surgical site. These infections account for substantive …

Background Postoperative infection is one of the most frequent and important complications
after surgery. The epidemiology of infection following elective surgery remains poorly …

Background Identification of patients at high risk of surgical-site infection may allow
clinicians to target interventions and monitoring to minimize associated morbidity. The aim of …

Objective To document the incidence, mortality rate, and risk factors for sepsis and septic
shock compared with pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction in the general-surgery …

Surgical site infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. High-quality
evidence supports several measures to prevent surgical site infections that should be …