The Breast Surgery Dept of the PICO Implementation Hub
Back at home- not back in hospital
The PICO Implementation Hub contains everything you need to know about PICO sNPWT.
- Evidence that supports its use, with insights and recommendations from an international panel
- Tools to help build a business case for wider use of PICO sNPWT in your setting
- Instructional posters, checklists, pathways and protocols to share quickly and easily with colleagues
You can tailor your experience at every step, reading, watching and sharing content in the order and at a pace which suits you.
This is the breast surgery programme
- Specifically: Oncological breast surgery and reconstruction
- Specifically: Aesthetic breast reduction surgery
Surgical site infections: What is the scale of the problem in breast surgery?
Recognition of which patients are at risk of surgical site complications, and to what extent, is essential in managing that risk and guide appropriate use of interventions.
You should be able to know realistically your own SSI or SSC rate.
Here we describe the data from the best epidemiological studies to detail the SSI prevalence in general and in this surgical indication.
Learning Objectives
- Discover key insights into surveillance for SSI
- Understand the scale of the problem of SSI
- Recall the SSI prevalence in this surgical indication from epidemiological studies