Evaluation of surgical site infections in surgical department of a tertiary care hospital
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Surgery - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Surgical site infections are one of the major morbidity in indoor surgical patients.Patients of all the age group and either gender, admitted in the surgical department, GMERS general hospital and Medical College, Gandhinagar in period starting from Dec 2015 to May 2016 and undergone class I and II surgery were included in the study. Shaving of operated part of patients was done just before surgery on table. Preoperative antibiotic of injection cefotaxime 1 gm was given just half hour before planned incision of surgery.Clean category 1 had rate of infection 1.1% and clean contaminated category 2 had rate of infection 2.4%.
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Harshad S Patel, Umesh Vaishnav
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