Professional Societies Surgical Infection Society – Europe Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Association of Peri-Operative Registered Nurses (AORN) Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) American Association for Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma (EAST) American College of Surgeons (FACS) Shock Society Surgical Site Infection Links CDC Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection 1999 Medscape "Surgical Site Infection: Pathogenesis and Prevention", by Donald Fry New Advisory Statement on Surgical Infections from SIP - Donald Fry represented the SIS: Antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery: an advisory statement from the National Surgical Infection Prevention Project Infection Control Today – "Fighting Surgical Site Infections" Healthcare-Associated Infections National Guidelines for Pneumonia by ATS and IDSA - 2005 CDC 12 steps to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitalized Adults CDC Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings – 2002 Treatment of Hospital Infections, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy University of Pennsylvania Medical Center for Antimicrobial Therapy – Links to Guidelines and Information CDC Guideline for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infections 2002 Guideline for the Management of Intravascular Catheter-related infections 2002 Bioterrorism IDSA Bioterrorism Information and Resources CDC Bioterrorism Webpage Healthcare Worker Safety CDC Guideline, Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis 2001 CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998

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