On demand webinar: How can cardiac surgeons combat the repercussions of surgical site complications?

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On demand webinar: How can cardiac surgeons combat the repercussions of surgical site complications?

In cardiothoracic surgery (via median sternotomy) if a patient develops a surgical site infection (SSI), and particularly a deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) (mediastinitis), there is a high mortality rate.

You can justifiably consider that All cardiothoracic surgery should be considered high risk because of the high mortality risk from mediastinitis.

In this webinar cardiothoracic surgeons can learn about strategies, including NPWT, to reduce the SSI and DSWI rate with the associated implications on healthcare resources from the clinical experience of 2 consultant surgeons.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the impact of surgical site complications that can occur after cardiac surgery and the main risk factors that can increase the consequences.
• Discuss the benefit and limitations of using bilateral internal mammary artery (BIMA) in CABG.
• Recall the evidence that supports the use of single use NPWT to reduce the impact of surgical site complications ( in a cost effective way).
• Recognise that there are differentiating mechanisms of action (MOA) for PICO^◊ sNPWT over other forms of NPWT.