The annual Reducing HCAIs conference, hosted by Govtoday, as part of its Health and Social Care Reform event series, returns to London’s Brewery Conference Centre on 18 February 2014 – this year under the theme of Improving processes, improving outcomes.
Bringing together key stakeholders from across the healthcare sector, the Reducing HCAIs conference will focus how to achieve a reduction in surgical site infections (SSIs). Currently SSIs represent around a fifth of all healthcareassociated infections, and 5% of patients undergoing surgery will develop one – statistics that demonstrate the scale of the challenge.
As defined by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in its guidance, a surgical site infection is “a type of healthcare-associated infection in which a wound infection occurs after an invasive procedure”.
The NICE guidance continues: “A SSI may range from a spontaneously limited wound discharge within 7-10 days of an operation to a life threatening postoperative complication, such as a sterna infection after open heart surgery.
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