{"id":12529,"date":"2021-06-04T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdihc.com\/?p=12529"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:34:51","slug":"healthcare-purchasing-news-perioperative-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdihc.com\/healthcare-purchasing-news-perioperative-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Purchasing News: Perioperative Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Healthcare Purchasing News<\/strong> recently published an article entitled <em>Perioperative Protection<\/em>\u00a0which discusses how maintaining a sterile field can guard patients and staff against infections. Many factors contribute to the onset of surgical site infections (SSIs) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) while patients are in the operating room, recovery, and treatment during hospital stays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt from the article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome potential procedural, environmental, and pathogen-related risk factors would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emergent\/complex procedure<\/li>\n<li>Preexisting infection\/colinization<\/li>\n<li>Hair removal method<\/li>\n<li>Skin prep\/ nasal decolonization<\/li>\n<li>Antibiotic prophylaxis (timing, choice, dosing)<\/li>\n<li>Glycemic control<\/li>\n<li>Blood transfusion<\/li>\n<li>Aseptic technique\/ surgical scrub\/ gloving<\/li>\n<li>Duration of surgery<\/li>\n<li>Or ventilation, traffic, equipment, or surfaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Risk factors that are potentially able to be modified are diabetes\/ glucose control, obesity (BMI&gt;30) smoking, malnutrition, and immunosuppressive medications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.yudu.com\/web\/z38o\/0A148ky\/2106-HPN\/html\/index.html?page=18&amp;origin=reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare Purchasing News recently published an article entitled Perioperative Protection\u00a0which discusses how maintaining a sterile field can guard patients and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6881,"featured_media":12530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[191,188,63],"tags":[401,658,443,492,86,657],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-healthcare","category-patient-care","tag-continuously-active-disinfection","tag-hai","tag-infection-prevention","tag-nasal-decolonization","tag-prevantics-device","tag-ssi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perioperative Protection Strategies Worth Knowing About | PDI Healthcare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many factors contribute to the onset of surgical site infections (SSIs) and other HAIs. 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