Surgical Site Infections: A Prospective Study in a Surgical Department of a Tertiary Care Center
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 10
Abstract
SSI is the index of the health care system of any hospital. With increasing incidence of hospital acquired infections and multidrug resistance, a meticulous and periodic surveillance of various hospital acquired infections particularly surgical site infections is called for. This study was undertaken because SSI isone of the topmost priorities among all the nosocomial infections. This prospective study was conducted in the Department of General Surgery, GCS Medical College and Research Centre, Ahmedabad over a period starting from July 2016 to December 2017. We studied all surgical cases operated with primary closure in our unit for surgical site infections.Any case operated outside our hospital or not closed primarily was excluded from the study.A total of 1026 cases were operated in our surgical unit, out of that 712 cases which were fulfilling the criteria were included in this study. Out of total 712 surgical cases studied over a period of 18 months, the surgical site infection rate was found to be 8.15%. Clean surgeries showed minimum risk of infection. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were the common pathogens. It is the need of hour to address the issue of surgical site infections and take stringent measures to curb them.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Vidhyasagar M Sharma, Dr. Ayush N Jain, Dr. Khusboo Lakhtariya
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