Single-patient ECG system reduces sternal wound infections and costs after cardiac surgery in Australia.

Sternal wound infections (SWIs) result in substantial costs to the Australian healthcare system, and implementing new technologies, such as the single-patient electrocardiogram (spECG) system for CABG[1] monitoring - shown to reduce the SWI rate - "is likely to benefit patients and reduce costs", say the authors of a paper published in I ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research i . The study[2] used a systematic review of research, with cost data, on CABG-related surgical site infections (SSIs) in Australia published since 2000. [Extracted from the article]