Preventing infections after vascular prostheses surgery
Released on: November 2, 2007, 8:50 am
Press Release Author: Andreas Kunze
Industry: Healthcare
Press Release Summary: Reducing the risk of prosthetic vascular graft infection (PVGI) with a mobile laminar air flow that reduces the contamination level on the surgical site area and instruments up to 95 %
Press Release Body: Vascular by-pass surgery is being used increasingly more frequently on elderly patients entailing several risk factors. Surgical infections in these procedures are a devastating complication which is related to serious complications with high mortality and limb amputation. Significant increases in prevalence of resistance to antibiotics have been observed worldwide. MRSA infection is a significant risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes among patients undergoing vascular surgery procedures. Therefore it is more and more important to reduce the contamination level especially in the operating field and instruments to prevent all sources of contamination during the surgical operation. A main problem especially in longer operations is the contamination of surgical instruments due to human presence and their activity within the operating room. An English Study from Whyte has been estimated that almost 70% of bacteria found in the patient's wound s come directly or indirectly from the instruments. There is a clearly relationship between the quality of the air and the degree of sepsis encountered. Under normal circumstances, the main source of airborne microbial contaminants is microscopic skin fragments given off by staff in theatre. In an conventional operating room you can expect about 50 to 200 CFU/m3. This number is rising the more people are in the operating room and the longer the operation last. As few as 10 colony forming units (CFU/m3) are sufficient to cause a deep infection.
Toul instrument table maintains the sterility of the instrument table even during long operations and reduces therefore the risk of an surgical site infection SSI. This instrument table provides a horizontal ultraclean laminar airflow which is directed directly over the instruments, acting as a barrier and minimizing the presence of bacteria-carrying particles at the wound.
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