Nosocomial Pathogens in Surgical Theatres in Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 10
Abstract
The study was conducted to ascertain the Nosocomial pathogens involved in surgical theatres; main surgical theatre, casualty ward and modelling theatre of Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), Port Harcourt. One Hundred samples were collected from nine different sources; namely surgical scissors, surgery scissors, surgical blades, blood pressure cuff, dressing forceps, towel clamps, speculum, cut scissors and surgical suture. Samples were also collected from sterile sources as control. The organisms isolated from all the theaters were Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas sp., Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp. and Proteus sp. giving a total of 106. The number of isolates based on the wards are 34 (32.0%) Main Surgical Ward, 33 (31.2%) Casualty Ward and 39 (36.8%) for Modeling Theater. Statistically there was a significant relationship between main surgical theatre, casualty ward and modeling theatre (P ˂ 0.05). In the total heterotrophic count of bacteria isolates, the main surgical theatre recorded 25.8 x 104 CFU/ml, the casualty ward recorded 28.9 x 104 CFU/ml while the modeling theatre recorded 26.7 x 104 CFU/ml. This study has revealed that pathogenic organisms were not found in sterilized surgical instruments. It becomes necessary that surgical equipment must be sterilized before use to avoid transfer of Nosocomial pathogens to patients.
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Mbata C. A. 1* , Aleru C. P. 1 , Azike C. A1 . , Adewoye M. O. 1 , Emeka E. E. 1 , Ugwueze V 1
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