Wound classification

Clean contaminated? What does that MEAN?

Here are some great charts and flowsheets to help you get a grasp on this concept

Depending on the wound class, the risk of surgical site infection (SSI) is as follows:

1) Clean: 1-5% 

2) Clean contaminated: 3-11%

3) Contaminated: 10-17%

4) Dirty: >27%

Still confused? Use this algorithm below!

Source: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Surgical-wound-misclassification%3A-a-multicenter-Levy-Lally/196eebfdb316e12b7f57de2661961d78c3e1b01a