Surgical infection and development: an overview

Abstract

Surgical infection is an important indicator of quality of care. Despite elucidation of consistent surgical development, surgical infection remains to be a serious problem in surgical practice. The sequential development in hospital design, surgical care and control measures to tackle the counterpart determinants of an infection environment, host and agent, respectively, do not stop the march of surgical infection. Specific actions are warranted in surgical practice to bring down the infection rate to a minimum.