Prevention of Surgical Site Infections in Neonates and Children: Non-Pharmacological Measures of Prevention

• Main Authors: Aniello Meoli (Author), Lorenzo Ciavola (Author), Sofia Rahman (Author), Marco Masetti (Author), Tommaso Toschetti (Author), Riccardo Morini (Author), Giulia Dal Canto (Author), Cinzia Auriti (Author), Caterina Caminiti (Author), Elio Castagnola (Author), Giorgio Conti (Author), Daniele Donà (Author), Luisa Galli (Author), Stefania La Grutta (Author), Laura Lancella (Author), Mario Lima (Author), Andrea Lo Vecchio (Author), Gloria Pelizzo (Author), Nicola Petrosillo (Author), Alessandro Simonini (Author), Elisabetta Venturini (Author), Fabio Caramelli (Author), Gaetano Domenico Gargiulo (Author), Enrico Sesenna (Author), Rossella Sgarzani (Author), Claudio Vicini (Author), Mino Zucchelli (Author), Fabio Mosca (Author), Annamaria Staiano (Author), Nicola Principi (Author), Susanna Esposito (Author), on behalf of the Peri-Operative Prophylaxis in Neonatal and Paediatric Age (POP-NeoPed) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that occurs in the incision created by an invasive surgical procedure. Although most infections are treatable with antibiotics, SSIs remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality after surgery and have a significant economic impact on health sy...