Most SSIs are believed to be acquired during a surgical procedure from the ... theater versus during postoperative wound care or secondary infection, and the proportion of endogenous versus ...
At face value, our results may seem intuitive – surgical wound infections come from bacteria that hang out around that part of the body. But this realization has some potentially powerful ...
In a prospective study, Rogers and colleagues analyzed wound infection rates in 1204 consecutive tumors treated with Mohs surgery using clean surgical technique and no prophylactic antibiotics.