Antimicrobial Dressings: The Silver Mystique

Antimicrobial Dressings, CHG Dressings, Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program, PHMB Dressings, Post-Op Dressings, Silver Dressings, SSI

As mentioned in our last posting, SSIs are the most common and costly of all hospital-acquired infections in the US.1 If you happened to have missed it, read it here. Accordingly, efforts to reduce SSI rates have led to the development of post-op dressings with antimicrobial agents impregnated within the dressing. These dressing inhibit the…