Abstract

Introduction: A growing body of research has demonstrated that manual cleaning and disinfection of the operating room (OR) is suboptimal. Residual environmental contamination may pose an infection risk to the surgical wound. This study evaluates the impact of a visible-light continuous environmental disinfection (CED) system on microbial surface contamination and surgical site infections (SSI) in an OR. This hospital is ranked as 11/4000 in Orthopaedic surgery CareChex database, 1 being the best.

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