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Infections following operative procedures are always of great concern to the surgeon. In the United States, the rates of wound infection after clean, clean–contaminated, contaminated, and dirty procedures during the period 1987 to 1990 were approximately 2.1 percent, 3.3 percent, 6.4 percent, and 7.1 percent, respectively.¹ These rates are an improvement over the rates reported for 1975 to 1976 of 2.9 percent, 3.9 percent, 8.5 percent, and 12.6 percent, respectively.² Wound infections, however, account for only about 24 percent of the approximately 2 million nosocomial infections seen yearly in hospitalized patients (2.8 infections per 100 patients).³ These rates vary according . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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