Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Discussion Groups

Prevent Surgical Site Infections

Prevent Surgical Site Infections is one of six interventions in the Platform of the 100,000 Lives Campaign. Please see the Materials tab in the Campaign area of the website for complete information about the components of care recommended as part of this intervention.

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SSI	Mary Mullen	0	123	7/2/2009 3:20:47 PM by Mary Mullen


CHG vs Iodine	Carla Fletcher	9	716	5/22/2009 12:44:21 PM by Kathy Lemmon


Costs of saving lives	Joanna Losier	0	186	4/17/2009 9:58:13 AM by Joanna Losier


Post-op dressing changes	Laurie Mustin	0	331	12/1/2008 3:07:44 PM by Laurie Mustin


Timing of Prophylactic Antibiotics in Women's Health (hysterectomies)	Amber-Leah Wolfe	1	450	10/20/2008 9:50:21 AM by Fran Griffin


Calculating Surgical Site Infections	Wendy Knight	1	450	10/20/2008 9:27:47 AM by Fran Griffin


ambulatory surgery preop attire for staff	Christine Hadlock	0	410	9/19/2008 11:58:52 AM by Christine Hadlock


wound care scare	Amber Jameson	3	577	8/19/2008 2:34:08 PM by Robert Dupuis


Preop Chlorhexidine showers for C/S patients	Mary Kearl	0	474	7/15/2008 2:07:35 PM by Mary Kearl


Normothermia	Bruce Garrett	7	895	4/21/2008 6:45:21 AM by Pedro Delgado


Maximum barrier precautions and PICC insertion	Amy Morrow	1	477	1/14/2008 9:58:49 AM by Fran Griffin


Antibiotic with in 60 minutes of incision	Laura Ryan	2	573	1/7/2008 4:09:37 PM by Retha Strom


Preoperative chlorhexidine gluconate use in the home shower.	Jonathan Blank	0	457	10/26/2007 1:38:05 PM by Jonathan Blank


Traffic In the OR	Christine McMullan	2	518	10/15/2007 11:29:28 AM by M. Grabowsky


Adhesive remover	Nancy Church	0	418	9/11/2007 6:06:32 PM by Nancy Church


Maintenance of postop glucose control: just cardiac surgery patients?	Andy Hackbarth	2	604	8/17/2007 11:34:26 AM by Christina DeCoskey


Thermometers used to measure normothermia in PACU	Barbara Moore	2	551	7/20/2007 2:28:56 PM by Sally Ryder


Alcohol preps	Angie Hicks	0	550	7/17/2007 8:17:58 AM by Angie Hicks


Shaving the grounding pad site	Kathleen Tobin	1	473	6/4/2007 9:57:08 AM by Fran Griffin


SSI Web&Action Discussion Group	Fran Griffin	5	927	4/13/2007 11:04:50 AM by Rebecca Bell


Invanz	Ann Burds	1	466	3/21/2007 1:10:42 PM by Brian Thatcher


antibiotic choice for colon surgery patients	Lorraine Farrell	0	459	2/13/2007 2:52:38 PM by Lorraine Farrell


Question re: Hair Removal in the Perineal Area?	Julia Herzenberg	2	692	2/8/2007 4:38:25 PM by Fran Griffin


VTE Prophylaxis	Joanne Casey	1	608	1/22/2007 10:13:22 AM by Fran Griffin


Clipping and time frame prior to surgery	Adelle Hutchins	2	508	1/3/2007 8:43:07 AM by William Berry

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