Medical News:Protocol Keeps MRSA Down in Airway Surgery - in Surgery, Otolaryngology from MedPage Today.
About one-third of children undergoing open airway surgery are colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) before the operation, but a screening and treatment protocol resulted in postop infection rates similar to those in the absence of MRSA, researchers found. After implementation of the protocol, postoperative infection rates were 16% in those colonized with MRSA and 17% in those free of MRSA (P=0.79), according to Alessandro de Alarcon, MD, MPH, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues.
