March 2, 2017
Incidence, risk factors for SSIs after hysterectomy
Editor's Note
In women undergoing hysterectomies largely because of gynecologic malignancies, duration of surgery was a significant surgical site infection (SSI) risk, finds this study. Choice of preoperative antibiotic did not affect SSI risk.
Of 1,531 hysterectomies analyzed, there were 52 SSIs, with 60% being deep incisional or organ/space infections. In multivariate analysis, duration of surgery, which was presumed to be a marker of surgical complexity, was the only independent risk factor for SSIs.
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