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Infection is the most common post-operative complication and over half the patients who die on surgical wards die of infective complications. Many of the invasive procedures we use to assist in the management of patients are associated with infection and the recent EPIC study of the risk of nosocomial infections in intensive care units has shown that intravenous, central venous and arterial pressure lines, urinary catheters, endotracheal intubation and mechanically assisted ventilation are all associated with a high incidence of infection [1].
Every operation in surgery is an experiment in bacteriology.
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Taylor, E.W. (1995). Risk Factors for the Development of Surgical Infection. In: Engemann, R., Holzheimer, R., Thiede, A. (eds) Immunology and Its Impact on Infections in Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79079-9_24
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