ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the risk factors of incision infection in elderly patients of general surgery.Methods The clinical data of 306 elderly patients of general surgery were analyzed retrospectively.The risk factors of incision infection were analyzed.Results The rate of incision infection was 10.5％ (32/306).The rate of incision infection in chronic disease patients was higher than that in non-chronic disease patients [12.9％(27/210) vs.5.2％(5/96)],the rate of incision infection in summer was significantly higher than that in spring,autumn and winter[16.3％(15/92) vs.8.4％(7/83),8.5％(6/71) and 6.7％ (4/60)],the rate of incision infection in operative time longer than 120 min patients was higher than that in operative time less than 120 min patients [15.0％ (18/120) vs.7.5％ (14/186)],the rate of incision infection in emergency surgery patients was higher than that in non-emergency surgery patients [12.3％ (20/162) vs.8.3％(12/144)],there had significantly difference (P＜ 0.05).Conclusion Chronic disease,summer,operative time longer than 120 min,emergency surgery in elderly patients are the mainly risk factors of incision infection in general surgery.
