Incidence and risk factors of neurosurgical site infections: results of a prospective multicenter cohort study on 6359 surgeries.

CONCLUSIONS: The subjects submitted to complicated, repeated, long lasting craniotomies, especially if experiencing postoperative deterioration, display the higher risk of SSIs, as a final life threatening complication. In order to reduce the SSI rate, further studies should address to design tailored prophylaxis protocols for each high risk situation as hereby defined; the wound complications deserve an increased microbiological surveillance, focusing the attention on the timing and source of infections. PMID: 29582969 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: J Neurosurg Sci Source Type: research