CLINICAL STUDY ON SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS IN ABDOMINAL SURGERIES

Introduction : Surgical operations or a component of a surgical intervention might cause infections. Even while it is impossible to completely eradicate wound infections, the patient will clearly benet from a decrease in wound infection rates to an acceptable minimum level. The introduction of more modern treatment approaches has made surgical site infection (SSI) both efciently preventable and controllable. Studying the prevalence of surgical site infections in both elective and urgent surgeries during the postoperative period is the goal. A total number of 150 cases were involved in the Methods : prospective observational study conducted in Department of General surgery at our hospital that is scheduled for abdominal surgeries. Including all abdominal surgeries both elective and emergency. Preoperative ndings which include skin preparation, type and time of preparation, preoperative antibiotics use were regarded. Operative ndings which include, type of incision, wound contamination. In this study the Results : rate of SSI in abdominal surgery was done in 150 patients, among which surgical site infections were clinically diagnosed in 26 patients with an occurrence of 17% out of 150 cases, 5 cases with SSI were diagnosed among 79 elective surgeries and 21 cases with SSI were diagnosed among 71 emergency surgeries. . Incidence of SSI among males is 12.5%; whereas of infection among females is 22.8% majority of patients belonged to age group between 51-60years. Out of 150 cases, 33 underwent clean surgery among which 2 developed SSI, out of 63 clean contaminated cases 6 developed SSI, out of 19 cases 7 developed SSI out of 38 cases 12 developed SSI. Emergency surgeries accounted for m Conclusion : ore SSI i.e. 29%. Dirty type of surgeries has high incidence of SSI at 32.43%. Majority of the patients belonged to age group of 51-60 years which account for 29%. The wound infection was more common in females (22.5%) than males (12.8%). Early diagnosis of SSI and prompt management by isolation of organism causing SSI, using sensitive antibiotics and regular dressing help in reducing morbidity for the patients.