Reducing the risk of postoperative surgical infections in implant surgery

ENT surgery. Reducing the risk of postoperative surgical infections in implant surgery, plastic surgery and ENT surgery with the use of a mobile laminar airflow that reduces the contamination level up to 95 %. The risks associated with plastic, cosmetic, and reconstructive surgery include the postoperative complications like infection inside the body related to inserting a prosthesis. Women undergoing breast implant surgery have a 2.5% risk of suffering a post-op infection, a worldwide study of 10,000 people suggests. For cancer patients having breast reconstruction the risk is up to 10 times

higher(University of Geneva; Lancet Infectious Diseases journal 2005). Risk associated with breast reconstruction after cancer treatment is much higher as radiotherapy and chemotherapy mean wounds do not heal as well.

These infections can result from contamination at the time of surgery or from bacteria migrating into the area around the prosthesis at a later time. Significant increases in prevalence of resistance to antibiotics have been observed worldwide. The danger from hospital infections is worsening because, increasingly, they cannot be cured with commonly used antibiotics. Therefore it is more and more important to reduce the contamination level especially in the operating field and instruments to prevent all sources of contamination during the surgical operation. An English Study from Whyte has been estimated that almost 70% of bacteria found in the patient‘s wound s come directly or indirectly from the instruments. There is a clearly relationship between the quality of the air and the degree of sepsis encountered. In an conventional operating room you can expect about 50 to 200 CFU/m3. This number is rising the more people are in the operating room and the longer the operation last.

Toul instrument table maintains the sterility of the instrument table and reduces therefore the risk of an surgical site infection SSI. This instrument table provides a horizontal ultraclean laminar airflow which is directed directly over the instruments, acting as a barrier and minimizing the presence of bacteria-carrying particles at the wound. Application: ENT surgery, Plastic surgery, Breast Implant surgery, Mammaplasty, Otoplasty, Facial Implants, Rhinoplasty