Surgical site infection epidemiology

Bade PS Surgical site infections Epidemiology and prevention. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2002 3(suppl 1) S9-S21. 

Barie P S (2002), Surgical site infections epidemiology and prevention , Surg Infect, 3(suppl),S9-S21. 

ES Wong. Surgical site infections. In CG Mayhall, ed. Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control. 2nd ed. Philadelphia Lippincott, Williams Wilkens, 1999, pp. 189-210. 

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a randomized epidemiological study on patients who had received morphine nerve paste post-operatively for pain management purposes. Ninety-four percent of the patients used in the cohort presented themselves with surgical-site comphcations such as edema and inflammation 24 days (median) post-operation. Upon culturing of the wounds, 64% tested positive for bacterial infection. It is important to note that aU of the patients were found to have residual morphine paste on board indicative of a chronic morphine state (Sacerdote et al. 2000). 

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