A Two Years Retrospective Study on Prevalence of Hospital Acquired Surgical Site Infections Among Patients Admitted in Wolaita Soddo Teaching and Referral Hospital

Abstract

Background: Surgical site infections are the second most common type of adverse events occurring in hospitalized patients. A surgical wound infection occurs when micro -organisms from the skin or the environment enter the incision that the surgeon makes through the skin in order to carry out the operation.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of surgical site infections among patients admitted to WSUTR   Hospital, southern Ethiopia.

Method and materials: A two years retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted in WSUTRH, 2015. The study was conducted on secondary data from September 2012 to August 2014 using patient cards.

Result

334 patient cards were included in our study by proportion 183 were from Obs/Gyn and 151 of surgical cases. From this  10(3%), 6(1.8%) and 5(1.5%) of patients who undergo surgery are diagnosed as having postoperative wound infection on date of 3-4 day, 5^th or more days post operative period in the hospital and at home after discharge respectively. Most patients develop infection after 3or more days post operative.

Conclusion

Surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that occurs at the incised site. Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common postoperative complications and occurs in at least five per cent of all patients undergoing surgery.

Recommendation:

Put into practice that provision of antibiotics before surgery since preoperative prophylactic antibiotics prevents from postoperative infections as well as surgical sight infection.

DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/9-4-01