The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) classifies wounds according to the amount of contamination. An uninfected surgical wound with less than a 5% chance of becoming infected postoperatively is classified as a:
a. dirty wound.
b. clean-contaminated wound.
c. contaminated wound.
d. clean wound.
D
A clean wound is an uninfected surgical wound with less than a 5% chance of becoming infected postoperatively.
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