Image-based digital post-discharge surveillance in England: measuring patient enrolment, engagement, clinician response times, surgical site infection, and carbon footprint

Review Anesthesiology

Emerging Paradigms in the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection: The Patient Microbiome and Antimicrobial Resistance

Dustin R. Long et al.

ANESTHESIOLOGY (2022)

Review Health Care Sciences & Services

Diagnostic accuracy of telemedicine for detection of surgical site infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Ross Lathan et al.

Summary: This systematic review assesses the accuracy of telemedicine in diagnosing Surgical Site Infection (SSI). The study found that telemedicine has high specificity in excluding SSI, but the accuracy of photograph methods is lower. Further research is needed to investigate the feasibility of telemedicine in the elderly population group.

NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE (2022)

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Review Infectious Diseases

Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in an Era of Antibiotic Resistance: Common Resistant Bacteria and Wider Considerations for Practice

Bradley D. Menz et al.

Summary: The rising antimicrobial resistance poses a global crisis for healthcare, increasing the risk of surgical site infections and highlighting the need for more data and practices to optimize surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.

INFECTION AND DRUG RESISTANCE (2021)

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Remote diagnosis of surgical-site infection using a mobile digital intervention: a randomised controlled trial in emergency surgery patients

Kenneth A. McLean et al.

Summary: Smartphone-delivered wound assessment tool may expedite diagnosis of SSI after emergency abdominal surgery, with higher odds of diagnosis within 7 postoperative days for patients in the smartphone group. However, there was no significant difference in the 30-day SSI rate between trial arms. Patients using the tool had reduced community care attendance.

NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE (2021)

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Article Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Eco-audit of conventional heart surgery procedures

Daniel Grinberg et al.

Summary: The environmental impact of conventional isolated cardiac surgery procedures was studied using an eco-audit methodology, revealing that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions (89%) were related to the use of disposable medical products. Pharmaceuticals used at anaesthesia workstations accounted for 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, while direct electrical consumption contributed 3% to the overall emissions.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY (2021)

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Article Infectious Diseases