Prevention and cure of surgical site infections (SSIs) place an enormous burden on medical and financial resources, both during surgery and postoperative hospital care. Our mobile laminar airflow units have been used in Scandinavia since 2003, providing an ultraclean, horizontal flow of air directly over the surgical site and instruments and acting as a barrier to minimize the presence of bacteria-carrying particles.
Airborne contamination in the operating theatre is
one of the reasons for infections in connection with
surgery. The cardio clinic at Danderyd Hospital is currently investing in new, Swedish, mobile innovation
technology, providing ultra-clean air at the surgical
site and over the instruments, at the hospital angio
lab. Dr. Johanna Sjöblom states “Our aim is to get the
number of infections down to zero, which means nothing can be left to chance.”
