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Target Audience: Healthcare epidemiologists, surgeons, acute care hospitals, and ambulatory surgical centers
Background
These evidence-based guidelines update CDC guidelines on prevention of surgical-site infections published in 1999.
Key Points
Recommendations that are unchanged include the following:
Preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis should be given only when indicated and timed so that a bactericidal concentration is present in tissue at the time of incision.
Patients should bathe the night before surgery.
Recommendations that have been updated include the following:
Additional antibiotic prophylaxis is not necessary after the surgical incision is closed, even for patients undergoing prosthetic-joint arthroplasty.…