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. 2020 Jun;33(5):E206-E212.
doi: 10.1097/BSD.0000000000000853.

Consensus on Wound Care of SSI in Spine Surgery

Matthew S Galetta  1 , Christopher K Kepler, Srikanth N Divi, Glenn S Russo, Anand H Segar, Barrett S Boody, Wesley H Bronson, Jeffrey A Rihn, Dhruv K C Goyal, Taolin Fang, Gregory D Schroeder, Alexander R Vaccaro
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Consensus on Wound Care of SSI in Spine Surgery

Matthew S Galetta et al. Clin Spine Surg. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

In July of 2018, the Second International Consensus Meeting on Musculoskeletal Infection convened in Philadelphia, PA to discuss issues regarding infection in orthopedic patients and to provide consensus recommendations on these issues to practicing orthopedic surgeons. During this meeting, attending delegates divided into subspecialty groups to discuss topics specifics to their respective fields, which included the spine. At the spine subspecialty group meeting, delegates discussed and voted upon the recommendations for 63 questions regarding the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infection in spinal surgery. Of the 63 questions, 7 focused on wound care, for which this article provides the recommendations, voting results, and rationales.

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