New guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection

Credit: Lynn Greyling/public domain The Surgical Infection Society (SIS) presents new evidence-based guidelines for the management of intra-abdominal infection (IAI) in the journal Surgical Infections. “These guidelines are critical in the ongoing work by the Surgical Infection Society to decrease the number of deaths from the most common and severe infections that surgeons see: Infections of the abdomen,” says Surgical Infections Editor-in-Chief Robert G. Sawyer, MD, Dean and Professor of Surgery, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Mich. “Most importantly, these guidelines are applicable across the globe, fostering better outcomes worldwide.” The guidelines are based on Read More