Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, March 6th, 2011
Surgical site infections are a major source of postoperative illness. Each year, approximately 500,000 surgical patients develop SSIs. Although they are preventable, SSIs continue to be a major source of postoperative illness and, less frequently, a cause of death among patients in the United States.(1)
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