In May 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its “Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection (SSI)” to provide new and updated evidence-based recommendations for the prevention of SSI. Read “What the infection preventionist needs to know,” by Michael Anne Preas, Lyndsay O’Hara and Kerri Thom, for a succinct and timely overview of what’s new in the guideline. This article, published in the Fall 2017 issue of Prevention Strategist, can be accessed here.