Nosocomial Infections
Study Showed Minimally Invasive Surgery Reduced Risk of Hospital-Acquired Infections Compared to Open Surgery
Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, April 22nd, 2008
SAGES 2008 ANNUAL MEETING - Ethicon Endo-Surgery announced results from a new study showing laparoscopic surgery reduced the risk of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections by 52 percent when compared to open surgery in a sample of more than 11,000 patients undergoing one of the following three surgical procedures: hysterectomy, cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) and appendectomy. Specific to individual surgeries, the study found laparoscopic surgery was associated with reduction of the risk of nosocomial infections during gallbladder removal by 66 percent, and during hysterectomy by 52 percent compared to open surgery. The study showed the reduction rates of nosocomial infections...
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