Antimicrobial Dressings: The Silver Mystique

Healthcare Education, Infection Prevention, SSIBy Eloquest MarketingJuly 21, 2017

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…

SSIs and Post-Op Dressings: What’s Missing?

Healthcare Education, Infection Prevention, SSIBy Eloquest MarketingJuly 7, 2017

You might remember from our previous blogs that certain measures, like surgical site infections (SSIs) are penalized in multiple programs of the Affordable Care Act—in the Value-Based Purchasing Program as well as the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program. View Blog #2 and Blog #3 here. SSIs are the most common and costly of all hospital-acquired infections…