Cathy Fischer, MSN, RN, CIC, and Jaime Drake, RN, CMSRN, American Nurse Today, September 2019: Faced with increasing patient readmissions for Surgical Site and MDRO infections, CarolinaEast Medical Center ...
Fischer, Drake 2019 - CarolinaEast Medical Center Infection Prevention (IP) partnered with the local Pruitt Health IP to reduce readmissions due to SSIs and multidrug resistant organisms. Among other strategies, ...
Johnson, 2018 Rochester Methodist Hospital, part of the Mayo Clinic, implemented an SSI reduction bundle for cases of open uterine cancer, ovarian cancer without bowel resection, and ovarian cancer with ...
Money, 2018 The University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital used Hibiclens for pre-op showering as part of an interdisciplinary approach to lower SSIs in C-section patients. The strategies resulted in ...
Cimo, 2013 Rochester Methodist Hospital used Hibiclens for pre and postoperative showering as part of an SSI reduction protocol for colorectal patients. They also sent Hibiclens home for post- operative ...
Tufts, 2018 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center implemented a multidisciplinary SSI bundle including Hibiclens for pre-operative and post-operative showering for colorectal and hepatic surgery patients. ...
Kelley, 2018 The University of Indiana implemented a novel, preoperative, patient-centered wellness bundle which included Hibiclens and showed statistically significant reductions in postoperative infectious ...
Erickson, 2018 High SSI rates threatened to stop C-Section deliveries. Standardizing a protocol utilizing silver post-op dressings and surgical closing tray procedures led to a reduction in SSI rates, ...
Underhill, 2018 This AORN 2018 top poster is a review of over 5,000 patients. C-section SSI rates were reduced by over 3% to 0.94% with a silver post-op dressing; facility SSI treatment costs avoided ...
Abboud, 2017 This Journal of Burn Care Research Review of the clinical studies on silver post-op dressings examines the incidence of SSI in high-risk groups such as diabetic and obese patients as well ...