[Shop-talk] Carpal tunnel syndrome?
Bob Kegel
bobkegel at comcast.net
Wed Jan 3 12:19:11 MST 2018
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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