Other Web Sites of Interest

Other Organizations/Societies:

• American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
• American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants (AASPA)
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
• American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• Association of Surgical Technologists (AST)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)
• Surgical Infection Society - Europe
• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

Surgical Site Infection:

• Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Surgery: An Advisory Statement from the National Surgical Infection Prevention Project (125K PDF)
• Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999
  Published The Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, national Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services/Centers for Disease Control Surgical Infection Prevention Project
• COC Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection 1999 (PDF)
• Medscape "Surgical Site Infection: Pathogenesis and Prevention" by Donald Fry
• Virginia Health Quality Center (VHQC) Surgical Infection Prevention Collaborative
• NMMRA Surgical Infection Prevention

Healthcare-Associated Infections:

• CDC 12 steps to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitalized Adults
• CDC Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings - 2002
• Guideline for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia, 2003
• Treatment of Hospital Infections, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
• CDC Guideline for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infections 2002
• Practice Parameters for Evaluating New Fever in Critically III Adult Patients 1998
• CDC Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003

Healthcare Worker Safety:

• CDC Guideline, Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis 2001
• CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998
• Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Sentinel Alert: Preventing Needlestick and Sharps Injuries, Issue 22, August 2001

Guidelines and General Topics

• ASA Practice Guidelines
• AORN Latex Guideline, 2004 (PDF)
• Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors-OR Times Glossary
• CORE's Comments on FDA Proposed Regulations: Surgeon's Patient Examination Gloves; Reclassification (1999)
• Readings on Perioperative Care Issues
  • Infection in the OR: Best Practices for the New Millennium
  • Report on Symposium IX: Toward the Perfect OR: Optimizing the Quality of the Operating Room by Team Participation

Perioperative Care

• Tutorials on Perioperative Care
• Patient Safety and Perioperative Care

Revised April 17, 2007

Committee on Perioperative Care