On demand webinar: Challenge your standard and reduce surgical site infection in high risk patients

Challenge your standard and reduce the burden of surgical site infection in high-risk patients

Surgical site infection (SSI) remains important in surgery as no field of surgery is without SSI.  What is important is to recognise when it happens and offer treatment.  However, prevention of SSI is a better strategy.  NPWT for closed surgical incisions in high-risk patients is one way to attempt to prevent SSI and is backed by clinical and economic evidence as well as having NICE recommendations.  

Industry Session with Smith+Nephew at the Surgical Infection Society Europe 2021

Learning Objectives

• Recognise the importance of SSI to patient, surgeon and health system
• Demonstrate the value of sNPWT for closed surgical incision to reduce SSI
• Summarise the key evidence and guidance
• Apply a simple algorithm to identify patients at high risk of SSI