Stitching together new evidence on triclosan-coated sutures for reducing surgical site infections

By Barbara Greenwood Dufour For most people, anticipating surgery is stressful for a variety of reasons. Concern that infection-causing germs will get into their incision may or may not be one of them. But, in Canada, more than 200,000 patients a year end up with a health care-associated infection while receiving care and, according to the World Health Organization, surgical site infections (SSIs) are one of the most common of these infections. There are, fortunately, measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of infection. According to a newly released study by the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, these measures appear to be working. Hospital-acquired infections in Canada — one fifth of which are surgical site infections — declined by 30 per cent between 2009 and 2017.

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