TY - JOUR
T1 - Hey surgeons! It is time to lead and be a champion in preventing and managing surgical infections!
AU - Sartelli, Massimo
AU - Coccolini, Federico
AU - Abu-Zidan, Fikri M.
AU - Ansaloni, Luca
AU - Bartoli, Stefano
AU - Biffl, Walter
AU - Borghi, Felice
AU - Chouillard, Elie
AU - Cui, Yunfeng
AU - Nascimento, Rafael De Oliveira
AU - De Simone, Belinda
AU - Di Saverio, Salomone
AU - Duane, Therese
AU - Eckmann, Christian
AU - Eid, Hani O.
AU - Gomes, Carlos Augusto
AU - Gomes, Felipe Couto
AU - Hecker, Andreas
AU - Hecker, Birgit
AU - Isik, Arda
AU - Itani, Kamal M.F.
AU - Leppaniemi, Ari
AU - Litvin, Andrey
AU - Luppi, Davide
AU - Maier, Ronald
AU - Manzano-Nunez, Ramiro
AU - Marwah, Sanjay
AU - Mazuski, John
AU - Moore, Ernest
AU - Perrone, Gennaro
AU - Rasa, Kemal
AU - Rubio, Ines
AU - Sawyer, Robert
AU - Labricciosa, Francesco M.
AU - Catena, Fausto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s).
PY - 2020/4/19
Y1 - 2020/4/19
N2 - Appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are integral to optimal clinical practice and standards of care. Among surgeons, these measures are often over-looked. However, surgeons are at the forefront in preventing and managing infections. Surgeons are responsible for many of the processes of healthcare that impact the risk for surgical site infections and play a key role in their prevention. Surgeons are also at the forefront in managing patients with infections, who often need prompt source control and appropriate antibiotic therapy, and are directly responsible for their outcome. In this context, the direct leadership of surgeons in infection prevention and management is of utmost importance. In order to disseminate worldwide this message, the editorial has been translated into 9 different languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish).
AB - Appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are integral to optimal clinical practice and standards of care. Among surgeons, these measures are often over-looked. However, surgeons are at the forefront in preventing and managing infections. Surgeons are responsible for many of the processes of healthcare that impact the risk for surgical site infections and play a key role in their prevention. Surgeons are also at the forefront in managing patients with infections, who often need prompt source control and appropriate antibiotic therapy, and are directly responsible for their outcome. In this context, the direct leadership of surgeons in infection prevention and management is of utmost importance. In order to disseminate worldwide this message, the editorial has been translated into 9 different languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish).
KW - Antibiotic therapy
KW - Antimicrobial resistance
KW - Infection prevention and control
KW - Surgical infections
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U2 - 10.1186/s13017-020-00308-1
DO - 10.1186/s13017-020-00308-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 32306979
AN - SCOPUS:85083755253
SN - 1749-7922
VL - 15
JO - World Journal of Emergency Surgery
JF - World Journal of Emergency Surgery
IS - 1
M1 - 28
ER -