For their study, researchers implemented four initiatives that included ongoing education for operating room staff on aseptic technique, sterility and standardization of skin-site preparation; skin preparation with chlorhexidine gluconate-based skin antiseptic; patient education; and the addition of vancomycin to the preoperative antibiotic regimen, according to the news report.
Twelve months after implementing the four initiatives, researchers discovered a 66 percent reduction in hip arthroplasty deep surgical site infections and 80 percent reduction in knee deep surgical site infections, according to the news report.
Read the news report about infections after orthopedic surgery.
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