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Editorial
. 2020 Apr 19;15(1):28.
doi: 10.1186/s13017-020-00308-1.

Hey surgeons! It is time to lead and be a champion in preventing and managing surgical infections!

Massimo Sartelli  1 , Federico Coccolini  2 , Fikri M Abu-Zidan  3 , Luca Ansaloni  4 , Stefano Bartoli  5 , Walter Biffl  6 , Felice Borghi  7 , Elie Chouillard  8 , Yunfeng Cui  9 , Rafael De Oliveira Nascimento  10 , Belinda De Simone  8 , Salomone Di Saverio  11   12 , Therese Duane  13 , Christian Eckmann  14 , Hani O Eid  15 , Carlos Augusto Gomes  16 , Felipe Couto Gomes  17 , Andreas Hecker  18 , Birgit Hecker  19 , Arda Isik  20 , Kamal M F Itani  21 , Ari Leppaniemi  22 , Andrey Litvin  23 , Davide Luppi  24 , Ronald Maier  25 , Ramiro Manzano-Nunez  26 , Sanjay Marwah  27 , John Mazuski  28 , Ernest Moore  29 , Gennaro Perrone  30 , Kemal Rasa  31 , Ines Rubio  32 , Robert Sawyer  33 , Francesco M Labricciosa  34 , Fausto Catena  30
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Editorial

Hey surgeons! It is time to lead and be a champion in preventing and managing surgical infections!

Massimo Sartelli et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

Abstract

Appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are integral to optimal clinical practice and standards of care. Among surgeons, these measures are often over-looked. However, surgeons are at the forefront in preventing and managing infections. Surgeons are responsible for many of the processes of healthcare that impact the risk for surgical site infections and play a key role in their prevention. Surgeons are also at the forefront in managing patients with infections, who often need prompt source control and appropriate antibiotic therapy, and are directly responsible for their outcome. In this context, the direct leadership of surgeons in infection prevention and management is of utmost importance. In order to disseminate worldwide this message, the editorial has been translated into 9 different languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish).

Keywords: Antibiotic therapy; Antimicrobial resistance; Infection prevention and control; Surgical infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare they have no competing interests.

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