Surgical safety program greatly reduces surgical site infections for heart operations

Monday, July 28, 2014 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

A common postoperative complication after open heart operations -- infection at the surgical site -- has been reduced by 77 percent at a Canadian hospital through its participation in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®), according to a new case study.

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