Available On Demand: April 10 at 9am MST
Length: 60 minutes
Continuing Education: FREE. All registrants will receive notification and directions to earn CEUs when the Webinar receives approval.
Description:
Surgical site infection (SSI) is an enormous problem. According to the CDC, 38% of all nosocomial infections in surgical patients are SSIs and an estimated 2.6% of nearly 30 million operations each year are complicated by SSI’s. SSIs also have an indirect effect. Each infection increases the hospital length of stay by an average of 7 days, adding over $3,000 in charges.
In this Webinar, leaders of the project to reduce SSIs at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Mohawk Valley Heart Institute, Utica, NY, will discuss the impact of SSIs and interventions which reduced their cardiothoracic SSI rate from an average of 4.6% in 2004 to 0% in 2006. The reduction in SSIs was a tremendous benefit to the patients and resulted in over $250,000.
Objectives
- Discuss the impact of surgical site infections (SSIs)
- Describe the project to reduce SSIs at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and the Mohawk Valley Heart Institute
- Identify clinical and financial outcomes related to reduced SSIs
