Recently, the authors of The Effect of Operative Time on Surgical Site Infection Following Total ShoulderArthroplasty sought to determine the correlation between operative time and 30 day surgical site infection (SSI) following total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database
In this study, 169 patients (0,50%) developed SSI within 30 days of surgery. Higher rates of SSI are associated with longer operative time. There was a significant increase in the rate of SSI occurrences for operative times over 180 minutes.
Comment: You can also read about how to use The operative time, as well as the infection rate, are affected by several factors. These include patient factors, such age, diagnosis, severity, co-morbidities and sex.
The authors of The effect of surgeon and hospital volume on shoulder arthroplasty perioperative quality metrics The number of surgeon cases was found to be inversely related with The operative time of shoulder arthroplasty. The shoulder arthroplasty performed by surgeons with high volume was 30…
