A Brief Overview of the 1999 CDC Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection

Abstract

This summarizes many of the topics covered in the 1999 CDC Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection. It does not attempt to cover everything in the guideline. This article discusses many of the topics and lists most of the guideline recommendations. The guideline is a very in-depth, detailed publication with many references, tables, and graphs. All references/issues discusses in this overview are in the guideline, and the guideline is the only reference for this paper.