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Infectious Risk Factors Related to Operating Rooms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Didier Pittet  and
Georges Ducel
Didier Pittet*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Georges Ducel
Affiliation:
Hospital Hygiene, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
*
Infection Control Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, 24 rue Michelidu-Crest, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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Abstract

Risk factors related to operating rooms include patient-associated risks, the operating room environment, ventilation systems, cleansing and sterilization, and operating room personnel. Although constantly debated, surgical wound infection surveillance with appropriate feedback to surgeons is one of the few effective measures that helps reduce surgical infection rates, and we strongly recommend its use. We also recommend the further study of other potential components of effective infection control programs for surgical patients.

Type
From the Third International Conference on the Prevention of Infection
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , July 1994 , pp. 456 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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