Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Francesco M Labricciosa, AbdelKarim H Al Omari, Lovenish Bains, Oussama Baraket, Marco Catarci, Yunfeng Cui, Alberto R Ferreres, George Gkiokas, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Adrien M Hodonou, Arda Isik, Andrey Litvin, Varut Lohsiriwat, Vihar Kotecha, Vladimir Khokha, Igor A Kryvoruchko, Gustavo M Machain, Donal B O'Connor, Iyiade Olaoye, Jamal A K Al-Omari, Alessandro Pasculli, Patrizio Petrone, Jennifer Rickard, Ibrahima Sall, Robert G Sawyer, Orlando Téllez-Almenares, Fausto Catena, Walter Siquini
In the multimodal strategy context, to implement healthcare-associated infection prevention, bundles are one of the most commonly used methods to adapt guidelines in the local context and transfer best practices into routine clinical care. One of the most important measures to prevent surgical site infections is surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP). This narrative review aims to present a bundle for the correct SAP administration and evaluate the evidence supporting it. Surgical site infection (SSI) prevention guidelines published by the WHO, CDC, NICE, and SHEA/IDSA/APIC/AHA, and the clinical practice guidelines for SAP by ASHP/IDSA/SIS/SHEA, were reviewed...
January 19, 2024: Antibiotics