Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2019

A CLINICAL STUDY OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION

Dr. K. Vani, Dr. Rajesh Indla, Dr. Devireddy Sreedhar Reddy

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Aim : Study of most common organisms encountered and their sensitivity and resistance to antibiotics in postoperative wound infection,operated in general surgery department RIMS, kadapa, with in the span of 2 years . Study relation of emergency and elective surgery to postoperative wound infection. Study of efficacy of different modes of preoperative preparation on postoperative wound infection. Study of distribution of postoperative wound infection among different surgeries based on bacterial contamination such as clean, clean–contaminated, contaminated and dirty. Methods: Seventy five cases of postoperative wound infection were analyzed. Appropriate history and examination was done. Culture and sensitivity reports were reviewed. Results: Most common organism encountered is E. coli (32%) most sensitive antibiotic is amikacin (69.3%) and most resistant antibiotics are cephalexin (73.3%) and erythromycin (73.3%). Postoperative wound infection was commonly encountered in emergency cases (69.3%) and dirty type of cases (62.7%). Postoperative infection is most commonly found in patients prepared, by shaving (76%), in > 24 hours before surgery (64.0%) and patients not taken preoperative bath (77.3%).

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A CLINICAL STUDY OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION, Dr. K.VANI, Dr.RAJESH INDLA, DR.DEVIREDDY SREEDHAR REDDY INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-4 | April-2019

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