Prevalence of Surgical Site Infections in IPD Department of Surgery: A Hospital Based Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21276/3th52e07Keywords:
Infection, wound, emergency, contaminated, moderateAbstract
Background: The most common causes of nosocomial infections are surgical site infections (SSIs). It is also reported that SSIs rate ranges from 2.5% to 41.9% worldwide and resulting in high morbidity and mortality.
Methods: This study conducted in Department of Surgery, Ananta Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Rajsamand.
Results: In this study, 410 cases were included, out of which 5.6% were infected post-surgery and 94.3% were non- infected. From the 5.6% cases 60.9% had mild infection and 30.4% had moderate infection and 8.7% had severe infection.
Conclusions: In the present study, the infection rate was higher. This high infection rate was due to the contaminated and dirty procedures where some of the patients were first seen about 2 to 3 days after development of peritonitis. It has been noted that the infection rate was higher in the emergency operative procedures in comparison to the elective procedures.
Downloads
References
WHO. Surveillance, control and prevention of hospital acquired (nosocomial) infections. Report of an advisory group. 1981 BAC/NIC/81.6.
Bock Avalos S. Knocking out nosocomial infections. Nursing 2010 June 24. URL:http://findarticles.com/p/ articles/mi_qa3689/is_200411/ai_n9471334/. Accessed August 15, 2013.
Anusha S, Vijaya LD, Pallavi K, Manavalan R. An Epidemiological Study of Surgical Wound Infections in a surgical unit of Tertiary care Teaching Hospital. Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 2010;4:8-13.
Brown S, Kurtsikahvi G, Alonso EJ, Aha L, Bochoidez T, Shushtakashiri M, et al. Prevalence and predictors of SSI in Tbilisi Republic of Georgia. J Hosp Infect. 2007;66:160- 166.
Mawalla B, Mshana SE, Chalya PL, Imirzalioglu C, Mahalu W. Predictors of surgical site infections among patients undergoing major surgery at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania. BMC Surgery. 2011;11:21.
Blomstedt GC.Infection in Neurosurgery:A restrospective study of 1143 patients and 1517 operations. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 1985;78:81–90.
Gaynes RP, Culvar TC, Edwards SR, Richards C, Telson JS. Surgical site infection [SSI], rate in the United States 1992-1998. The National Nosocomial Surveillance System Basic SSI risk index. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006; 27:1401-1404.
Packard FR. The life and Times of Ambroise Pare, New York: Boeber , | | 1927.
Cruse P JE , FoordRN. The epidemiology of wound infection :a 10 year prospective study of 62939 wounds. Surg Clin NorthAm 1980;60:27-40.
Leaper DJ (2010)Surgical site infection. BritishJournalofSurgery;97: | | 1601-1602.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 International Archives of BioMedical and Clinical Research
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors are required to sign and submit the completed “Copyright transfer Form” upon acceptance of publication of the paper. This is determined by a publishing agreement between the author and International Archives of Biomedical and Clinical Research. These rights might include the right to publish, communicate and distribute online. Author(s) retain the copyright of their work. International Archives of Biomedical and Clinical Research supports the need for authors to share, disseminate and maximize the impact of their research.
