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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/075-antibiotic-prophylaxis-summary-table.pdf
April 01, 2025 - Safety Program for MRSA Prevention:
Targeting SSI
Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Recommendations
Surgical … pathogens most likely to be found at the surgical site and/or found in
surgical site infections (SSIs … Strategies to prevent
surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … /documents/clinic
alpathways/SHC-Surgical-Prophylaxis-ABX-Guideline.pdf. … aureus surgical site infections: report from Australian Surveillance Data
(VICNISS).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/131-ss-swiss-cheese.pptx
April 01, 2025 - PowerPoint Presentation
Learning From Defects: Applying the “Swiss Cheese Model” of System Failures
Surgical … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … | 2
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The Swiss Cheese Model
2
What … Defect: Anything You Do Not Want To Happen Again
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The Swiss Cheese Model
References
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/implementing/patient-booklets.html
November 01, 2023 - These booklets were created by experienced content experts for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … Care and Recovery (ISCR), a collaborative program to enhance the recovery of surgical patients. … Review the booklets with your surgical teams and plan how the booklets will be distributed and who will
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/014-ss-cleaning.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Optimizing Environmental Cleaning
Surgical … No. 25-0029
April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Optimizing Environmental … Cleaning
1
Educational Objectives
Discuss why environmental cleaning is critical in surgical site … | 7
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Optimizing Environmental Cleaning … | 13
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Optimizing Environmental Cleaning
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/guide-surg-comp.html
December 01, 2017 - Supplemental Tools
Surgical Care Audit Tools
Surgical Site Infection Investigation Tool … safety program team understand lapses in infection prevention processes that may have contributed to the surgical … Surgical Skin Preparation Audit Tool ( Word , 1.57 MB)
This tool will help your team understand how
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/028-ss-cusp-program-sustainability.pptx
April 01, 2025 - CUSP Program Sustainability
CUSP Program Sustainability
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … | 3
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
CUSP Program Sustainability
3 … If hair removal is needed, are surgical clippers used?
Are resources still available? … | 10
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
CUSP Program Sustainability
The
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/applying-cusp/surgical-roles.html
December 01, 2017 - Surgical Safety Team Roles and Responsibilities Tool
AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery … Surgical Safety Team Roles and Responsibilities Tool
SURGICAL SAFETY TEAM TASKS
PRIMARY CONTACT … SURGICAL SITE INFECTION PREVENTION TASKS (TECHNICAL)
Audits
Who will collect … Data Reporting
Who will generate reports for surgical site infection rates?
… Data Feedback
Who will provide feedback on surgical site infection rates to frontline providers, the
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/097-ss-normothermia-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Normothermia
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries … Services Normothermia | 1
References
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 … Effects of preoperative warming on the occurrence of surgical site infection: A systematic review and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/076-antimicrobial-prophylaxis-duration-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Duration
Surgical Services … For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Use Surgical Prophylaxis for … the Shortest Effective Period1
Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis should be used for the shortest effective … Recommendation: Discontinue Surgical Prophylaxis After Incisional Closure1-2
Discontinuing surgical … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/106-cusp-psychological-safety.pptx
April 01, 2025 - PowerPoint Presentation
CUSP Program: Psychological Safety
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … An audit revealed surgical patients from the OR had temperatures below 35.5 degrees Celsius. … Services
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
CUSP Psychological Safety
6 … Services
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-implement.html
November 01, 2017 - a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide
Implementing the Surgical … It is important that your culture survey captures responses from a representative sample of surgical … The team should include representatives from each role on the surgical team. … Watch and coach (randomly, across the full range of surgical practices in your facility). … Administer an annual culture survey to surgical team members.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/miller-birkmeyer-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Physician Organization and the Efficiency of Surgical Specialty Care
1
Title … of Project
Physician Organization and the Efficiency of Surgical Specialty Care
Principal Investigator … Scope: Surgical specialty care represents a major component of specialty healthcare
services. … Wide variation in the cost and quality of these surgical episodes suggests
opportunities for improvement … Scope
Surgical care is a major contributor to Medicare spending growth
Surgical specialty care—that
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/096-ss-glycemic-control-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Glycemic Control
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries … 1,2
Surgical patients, even without diabetes, are at risk for hyperglycemia
Hyperglycemia is associated … with increased risk for surgical site infections (SSIs), mortality, and higher healthcare costs
Risk … Surgical site infection prevention: a review. JAMA. 2023 Jan;329(3):244-52. PMID: 36648463. … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/098-ss-hair-removal-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Preoperative Hair Removal
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal … Only remove hair if its presence will interfere with the surgical procedure.1-3
· Possible reasons for … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … Surgical site infection prevention: a review. JAMA. 2023 Jan;329(3):244-52. PMID: 36648463.
4. … Preoperative hair removal to reduce surgical site infection.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-surgery/098-hair-removal-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Preoperative Hair Removal
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal … Only remove hair if its presence will interfere with the surgical procedure.1-3
· Possible reasons for … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … Surgical site infection prevention: a review. JAMA. 2023 Jan;329(3):244-52. PMID: 36648463.
4. … Preoperative hair removal to reduce surgical site infection.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/51-regional-analgesia-arthroplasty.pptx
June 01, 2023 - Analgesia for
Total Hip Arthroplasty and Total Knee Arthroplasty
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical … No. 23-0052
June 2023
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
1
Why Use Regional … (Part 2)
Match the anatomical distribution of the block to the surgical site
Hip (total hip arthroplasty … Care and Recovery
Regional Analgesia for THA/TKA 9
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care … Regional Analgesia for THA/TKA 10
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/47-prep-colorectal-surgery.pptx
June 01, 2023 - Has Evolved, with
Current Recommendations on the Right Approach
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical … No. 23-0052
June 2023
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
1
Originally … Care and Recovery
4
Oral antibiotics the day before surgery resulted in a 50% reduction in surgical … Surgical Care and Recovery. … and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/042-ss-training-preop-nasal-iodophor.pptx
April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Preoperative Surgical … Training: Nasal Decolonization in the Preoperative Area
Nasal Iodophor
(10 Percent Povidone-Iodine)
Surgical … No. 25-0029
April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Nasal Decolonization … Nasal decolonization has been
shown to be effective at preventing
surgical site infections (SSIs). … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Nasal Decolonization Iodophor
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How To
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiapu.html
September 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates
Chapter 3. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract
Appendix U. … specialties (5 general, 2 trauma/critical care, 1 surgical oncology). … site infection, surgical risk factor, risk factor, surgical wound, surgical infection. … Slide 33
Implications
CMS will be collecting Surgical Site Infection (SSI) data on two surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/040-ss-training-clinic-patient-ed.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Staff Training: Teaching Patients To Decolonize at Home
Surgical … No. 25-0029
April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Teaching Patients … How to Decolonize
1
Standardizing Your Process
Note: The surgical site infection (SSI) steps you use … | 2
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Teaching Patients How to Decolonize … Decolonization is proven to reduce bacteria on the body and the rate of surgical site infections.