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Improve Patient Safety, Reduce Costs and Increase Patient Throughput By Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Preventing and Treating Surgical Site Infections with Collatamp G
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Improve Patient Safety, Reduce Costs and Increase Patient Throughput By Preventing Surgical Site Infections
As you know, reducing your hospital's rate of surgical site infections is key to improving your:
- Patient care and safety
- Cost-effectiveness
- Surgical outcomes
- Wait times
According to Dr. Ross Baker, a University of Toronto professor in health, policy and management, a "reasonable" reduction in the number of surgical site infections in a medium-sized hospital could free up as many as 20 to 30 beds on an ongoing basis.
Best Practices for Reducing Surgical Site Infections
Surgical site infections—the third most common type of hospital-acquired infection—cost the Canadian healthcare system more than $200 million annually, and yet 40 to 60% are considered preventable.
Your facility is likely following these best practices to achieve harm- reduction targets:
- Implementing, tracking and ensuring compliance with appropriate prophylactic antibiotic dosing and glucose monitoring protocols.
- Developing and implementing protocols for appropriate preoperative hair removal, and ensuring that only electric clippers or chemical depilatories are used for this purpose.
- Ensuring the ambient temperatures in operating rooms are high enough to maintain normothermia in surgical patients, and making booties, hats and blankets available to patients perioperatively for this purpose.
(For detailed recommendations, go to Safer Healthcare Now's surgical site infection resources.)
New Developments in Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Now you can take your hospital's efforts even further—spending less than half of 1% of your operating room budget to reduce your rate of surgical site infections 50-85% annually.
Follow the link to learn about Collatamp G—a breakthrough medical device for preventing surgical site infections.
