• Screening for Staph aureus before surgery … why bother?

      Date: March 30th, 2017

      Time: 10:30 am PST

      Speaker: Dr. Hilary Humphreys, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

      Objectives:

      – Review the role of Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of post-operative infection, specifically after orthopaedic and cardiovascular surgery
      – Discuss the role of horizontal and vertical approaches to preventing post-operative infection
      – Compare universal decolonisation with pre-operative screening and selective decolonisation

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