Excela Health Latrobe (Pa.) Hospital representatives presented (pdf) four lessons learned from a project to reduce neurosurgical site infections at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 24th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care.
The hospital implemented measures to reduce neurosurgical site infections, including educating patients and medial and nursing staff, conducting preoperative nares screening for Staphylococcus aureus and performing mupirocin decolonization for nasal carriers of Staph aureus.
Click here to read the full story on the lessons on SSI initiatives in Becker's ASC Review.
The hospital implemented measures to reduce neurosurgical site infections, including educating patients and medial and nursing staff, conducting preoperative nares screening for Staphylococcus aureus and performing mupirocin decolonization for nasal carriers of Staph aureus.
Click here to read the full story on the lessons on SSI initiatives in Becker's ASC Review.