%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of a surgical checklist on decreasing incisional infections following foreign body removal from the gastrointestinal tract in dogs
%A Garrett J. Davis
%A Jed Sung
%A Jonathan Lustgarten
%A Sirrika Samuels
%A Spencer Davis
%A Zo£¿ A. Launcelott
%J Archive of "The Canadian Veterinary Journal".
%D 2019
%X Two similar populations of dogs were evaluated in either a retrospective or prospective manner for 2 weeks after gastrointestinal foreign body surgery to determine the impact of a surgical checklist on the surgical site infection (SSI) rate. The medical records of 201 gastrointestinal foreign body surgeries were reviewed to determine the SSI rate without the use of a surgical checklist (SC£¿) and 101 consecutive gastrointestinal foreign body surgeries were performed using a surgical checklist (SC+). The SSI rate had a significant decrease from 19.9% to 11.9% with the use of the surgical checklist. When combining the cohorts, statistically significant predictors for development of an SSI following gastrointestinal foreign body removal included: a combined gastrotomy and enterotomy, an enterotomy, and known self-trauma
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294029/