Invited Commentary on the Paper Entitled ‘Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection: An Independent Risk Factor for Mortality in Patients with Poststernotomy Mediastinitis’

While post-sternotomy mediastinitis (PSM) is a rare complication, it is a most serious surgical site infection (SSI) with high mortality. This devastating complication has an enormous influence on the patients’ quality of life, associated with extended hospitalization, multiple additional surgeries and prolonged application of antibiotic therapy. If there is a multi-resistant microbe or multiple resistant microbes involved, the antibiotic options are limited, which further decreases the survival rate. Therefore, maximum efforts should be made to prevent SSI, including mediastinitis