Table 2

Compliance with SSI prevention bundle

Compliance by individual bundle componentsCompliance rate (%)
Oral antibiotics with mechanical bowel preparation62/73 (84.9)
Discussion of bundle during team time out77/88 (87.5)
Hair removal with skin clippers74/74 (100)
Skin preparation with alcoholic chlorhexidine88/88 (100)
Preoperative prophylactic intravenous antibiotics88/88 (100)
Redosing intravenous antibiotics at 4 hours26/26 (100)
AAMI level III surgical gowns87/88 (98.9)
Wound protector80/88 (90.9)
Separate linear staplers7/7 (100)
Quarantine of contaminated instruments88/88 (100)
Glove change before fascial closure81/88 (92)
Clean closing instruments85/88 (96.6)
Compliance by number of bundle componentsPatients, n (%)
12/1255 (62.5)
11/1227 (30.7)
10/123 (3.4)
9/123 (3.4)
  • AAMI, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; SSI, surgical site infection.