APSIC Safe Surgery is a team of people (Surgical team, Infection Control, Critical care team) that promotes collaboration and use of guidelines as well as best practices to deliver quality surgical care for those served.

We define a hospital as a Centre of Excellence when it fulfils all of the strategic criteria:

• Delivers the highest level of patient safety and quality patient outcome
• Committed to ensuring dedicated surgical site infection (SSI) control teams to undertake SSI surveillance
• Takes on a leadership role and follows the recommendations of APSIC Guidelines for Prevention of SSI
• Implements quality improvement projects to achieve significant reduction in surgical site infections

APSIC Safe Surgery Program Brochure

To complete this form, please download to your device. Once completed, return the form to: safesurgery@apsic-apac.org

APSIC Surgical Site Assessment Tool

2019 APSIC Safe Surgery Posters

(presented during 2019 APSIC Congress in Danang, VietNam)

• Promoting Safe Surgery in ORIF close fractures of lower limb – University of Malaya Medical Center, Malaysia
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Program: Focus on Surgical Prophylaxis – Bangkok Hospital Phuket, Thailand

Past Year Awards

• 2022 Winners