To study the incidence of surgical site infection in surgical unit of DHQ teaching hospital, D.I.Khan

ABSTRACT

To study the incidence of surgical site infection using standard prophylactic techniques in surgical unit patients of DHQ teaching hospital over two years. District Head-quarters Teaching Hospital, D I Khan from 1[st] January 2008 to 31 [st] December 2009. A prospective study on 1000 patients admitted for different types of operations. Only patients admitted for elective operations were included in this study. All these patients were given three standard doses of Prophylactic antibiotics i.e. one gram of third generation cephalosporin at the induction of anaesthesia, the second dose after twelve hours after the first dose and third dose after twenty four hours the fist dose. Surgical Site Infection was observed in 35 patients out of 1000 elective surgeries done over two years. Twenty one patients had Superficial Incisional Surgical Site infection. Ten patients had deep Incisional Surgical Site Infection and Four Patients had Organ/ Space Surgical Site Infection. The study shows that Surgical Site Infections [SSIs] in elective surgeries done in the surgical department of DHQ Teaching hospital D.I.Khan Pakistan is well within the Standard normal level [3.5%]