Does double gloving reduce SSI rates? What evidence exists to support the use of antimicrobial impregnated gloves?

What is the best solution to use for surgical scrubbing?

Placing subcut drains intra-operatively in high risk patients

What constitutes best practice intra-operatively to minimise SSI

What are the compliance rates of surgeons, nurses and anaesthetists to infection prevention peri-operatively? This study in a maltese hospital assesses these compliance rates

Our website www.surginfection.com was used as part of a blended learning initiative in our local hospital. We report on the use of audit to tailor make targeted educational interventions as well as detail website acess data for the first 6 weeks following it going live online.

Could patient education improve infection control practices with regards to IV lines in surgical patients? This study exmaines a cohort of surgical patients with peripheral iv lines and determines the level of patient awareness with regard to the indication for insertion

Is it a case of the more surgical checklists the better? Following on from the SSSL peri-operative checklist from the WHO, this team of researchers from the Netherlands examine whether a checklist encompassing both pre- and post-operative phases of a patients in-hospital journey can decrease adverse surgical events

This study is a randomised controlled multicentre trial from the USA, published in the NEJM. In it it compares chlorhexidine-alcohol against povidone-iodine to determine which is most effective as pre-operative surgical site antisepsis in prevention of surgical site infection

This study is a randomised controlled multicentre trial from the USA, published in the NEJM. In it it compares chlorhexidine-alcohol against povidone-iodine to determine which is most effective as pre-operative surgical site antisepsis in prevention of surgical site infection