Abstracts 2026

Prophylactic Antibiotics and Multi-Drug-Resistant Organism Infections in Older Patients with Intracranial Hemorrhage

Authors: Henry Olivera Perez, Anna Huang Perez, Andrea Gochi, Rachel Borthwell, Jackelyn Moya, Emily Quinn, Annie Wong-on-Wing, Vivian Ng, Savinnie Ho, Isaac Mora, Saffanat Sumra, Adam Gutierrez, Genna Beattie, Naveen Balan, Lucas Thornblade, Gregory Victorino, April Mendoza

Room Air Quality Monitoring Misses Surgical Field Exposure: Rethinking Ventilation Standards for Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention

Authors: Justin Benton, Divya Kewalramani, Lily Wushanley, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Alexander Wurtz, Yana Chaudharu, Les Barta, Joelle Getrajman, Leonardo Calderone, Keith Kaye, Brian Buckley, Gediminas Mainelis, Philip Barie, Mayur Narayan

Send Them Home! No Increase in Cost for Children With Perforated Appendicitis Who Develop Organ-Space Infection

Authors: Erin Morris, Jeannette Joly, Krysta Sutyak, Natalie Drucker, KuoJen Tsao

Soft Tissue Remodeling in Infected Fields Using a Novel Extracellular Matrix: A Clinical Case Series Evaluation

Authors: Cray Noah, Alexandra Smick, Meganoush Schmit, Frank Makhlouf, Latisha Stewart Smith, Isabel Lazo, Darin Saltzman

Source control is now the major operative role of the acute care surgeon

Authors: Ryan Desrochers, Francesca Bragg, Andrew Stephen, Daithi Heffernan

Strepotococcus gallolyticus infections at a community hospital

Authors: Saron Araya, Sridha Gona, Ifeanyi Chinedozi, Aaron George, Hugo Bonatti

Surgical Infection Society Guidelines on Antibacterial and Antifungal Prophylaxis in Liver Transplantation

Authors: Simeng Wang, Samy-Malik Bendjemil, Hugo Bonatti, William Chiu, Jared Huston, Amanda Jensen, Deepak Ozhathil, Joseph Forrester

Pneumonia after Burns – Prevalence, Risk Factors and Effect on Outcomes

Authors: Julia Kleinhapl, Lucineia Gainski Danielski, Juquan Song, Steven Wolf, Celeste Finnerty, John Ekale

Surgical Site Infection in Minor Diabetic Amputation in Solomon Islands: A three-year retrospective study

Authors: Benjamin J. Katz, Taylor R. Robinson, Dylan Bush, Stallone Kohia, Raymond Dickson, Alfram Vakimuna, Rooney Jagilly, Ruhul Abid