Features & Benefits

Why Risk an SSI?
Surgical Site Infections (SSI)5,6
‐ 37% of hospital acquired infections in surgical patients are SSIs
‐ Patients with an SSI are twice as likely to spend time in an intensive care unit
‐ Patients with an SSI are five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge
‐ Patients with an SSI are twice as likely to die
‐ 40‐60% of surgical site infections may be preventable
SSIs are common & costly for patients and hospitals; the average cost of managing a single patient with an SSI was estimated at £3,122.7-9*

Reducing Risk
Multiple meta-analyses support the use of PLUS Antibacterial Sutures to reduce the risk of SSI by up to 28%.10-12

Microbial Barrier
In the presence of a foreign body, such as suture, it takes only 100 staphylococci per gram of tissue for an SSI to develop13
Once a suture is introduced into a surgical incision, bacteria on the surface of the epidermis, disrupted while making a skin incision, migrate from the surface to the foreign body, which is the site of SSI initiation.14,15
Plus Antibacterial Sutures have been shown in vitro to inhibit bacterial colonization of the suture for 7 days or more and are effective against the most common organisms associated with SSIs: 4,16,17
-Staphylococcus aureus
-Staphylococcus epidermidis
-MRSA
-MRSE
-Escherichia coli**
-K pneumoniae**

Plus Sutures for Preventing Surgical Site Infection - NICE Medical Technologies Guidance
Triclosan-coated sutures are supported by evidence-based recommendations from a number of global health authorities as part of the SSI prevention bundle.18-22^
Supporting Documentation
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