Factors intervening in the appearance of infections in surgical wounds of patients operated at the milagro general hospital in the period from august 2020 to january 2021
Journal Title: Más Vita - Year 2022, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Ecuador maintains a high mortality rate derived from surgical wound infections, post-cesarean sections are the ones that commonly occur, where bacteria increasingly evolve mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics. Objective: to analyze the factors that intervene in the appearance of infection in surgical wounds. Materials and Methods:inductive-deductive type research when analyzing quantitative variables; and the application of reasoning, with which generalizations of the subject under study were obtained Results:Sex 35% Women and 65% Men, 25% are between 15 and 40 years old, 45% are between 41 and 60 years old, and 30% are 61 and older. Regarding the level of education, 50% have no education, 25% primary, 15% secondary and 10% higher, according to residence, 75% live in rural areas and 25% in urban areas. Most of the surgical procedures involved in the complication of wound infections were emergency in 93.3%; while those who attended electives responded to 6.7%. It was observed that 80% of the surgeries performed are classified as clean contaminated surgeries, and 20% contaminated surgeries. The same ones that have a high risk of becoming infected with SQ. Conclusions:Although the preventive actions of skin preparation and asepsis -antisepsis prior to the surgical act are fulfilled, infections of the surgical wound continue to occur in a part of patients operated on at the Hospital General Milagro
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María Esther Macias Fernández, Amanda Abigail Villafuerte Fernández, Holguer Estuardo Romero Urréa
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