Background Increased risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) caused by hyperglycemia makes
it necessary to follow perioperative glucose lowering strategies to reduce postoperative …

Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2014 to
December 2014 in a rural tertiary care hospital of Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand state …

Aim: To determine the incidence of and associated risk factors for superficial SSIs in
abdominal surgery cases at a central Indian rural teaching hospital. Methods: This cohort …

Background Managing surgical site infections, with negative culture report in routine
diagnosis is a common dilemma in microbiology accounting more than 30% worldwide. The …

Background Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the infections of wound after an invasive
operative approach. It remains to be a major morbidity for patients undergoing surgeries …

Meta-analysis of prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy for surgical site infections (SSI)
in caesarean section surgery Page 1 224 Videosurgery Creative Commons licenses: This is …

Background: Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) refers to the utilization of antibiotic
agents for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSI), to prevent SSI-associated morbidity …

Methods This pilot study was conducted at King Edward Memorial Hospital, an academic
public institution in Mumbai that serves a predominantly socioeconomically disadvantaged …

Results A total of 59 RCTs were included in the meta-analysis with information from 20,497
patients. A reduction in overall SSI incidence was found (RR= 0.70, 0.60–0.80, p= 0.0002 …

Background: Infected wounds pose a special challenge for management, with an increased
risk of wound chronicity, systemic infection, and the emergence of antibiotic resistance …