Society guideline links: Prevention of surgical site infections in adults

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Global guidelines on the prevention of surgical site infection, 2nd edition (2018)

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines for management of intraabdominal infections from a global perspective (2017)

●WHO: Guidelines for safe surgery (2009)

Canada

●Best Practice in Surgery (BPS): Surgical site infection prevention

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order peri-operative antibiotics beyond a 24-hour post-operative period for non-complicated instrumented cases in patients who are not at high risk for infection or wound contamination. Administration of a single pre-operative dose for spine cases without instrumentation is adequate (2019)

United States

●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on surgical site infections (2019)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Practice bulletin for the prevention of infection after gynecologic procedures (2018)

●American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Surgical Infection Society (SIS): Surgical site infection guidelines, 2016 update (published 2017)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Guideline for the prevention of surgical site infection (2017)

●American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), SIS, and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery (ARCHIVED; published 2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Medical technologies guidance on Leukomed Sorbact for preventing surgical site infection (2021)

●NICE: Medical technologies guidance on Plus Sutures for preventing surgical site infection (2021)

●NICE: Guideline on surgical site infections – Prevention and treatment (2019, updated 2020)

●NICE: Quality standard on surgical site infection (2013)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Society for Surgical Infection: Gastroenterological surgery perioperative management guidelines for SSI prevention (2018)

●[In English] Japanese Urological Association (JUA): Essential Japanese guidelines for the prevention of perioperative infections in the urological field, 2015 edition (published 2016)