[Shop-talk] Carpal tunnel syndrome?

[Bob Kegel]

On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 00:09, David Hillman wrote:

> according to the CDC, about 2/3rds of a million people acquire 
> infections in our hospitals

True, the stats are available at  https://www.cdc.gov/hai/surveillance/index.html

Note that these numbers are for hospital inpatients. Carpal tunnel surgery is usually done in an ambulatory surgery facility and has a very low infection rate,  less than 0.4%. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20141890

Bob K

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