TRENDS OF SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS ALONG WITH THEIR SURGICAL SITE EFFICACY OF SINGLE DOSE ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS IN CONTROL OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION IN CLEAN WOUNDS

Abstract

Background: Numerous guidelines for the correct use of prophylactic antibiotics have been published in the recent years. Those guidelines and publications show that single dose prophylactic antibiotic therapy is efficacious for most of the procedures.

Aims and objectives: To study the efficacy of single dose antibiotic prophylaxis in control of surgical site infection in clean wounds.

Material & methods: In total, 100 subjects were chosen randomly from those posted for clean surgeries during the study period of one year.

Results: The infection rate was high amongst patients in whom the surgery lasted for above 60 minutes (33%). The incidence of postoperative wound infection was more or less similar in surgeries lasted for 1 to 2 hours. The overall incidence of postoperative wound infection was 4%. The patients who developed infection were in age of 30 -50.

Conclusion: It was observed that patients who had longer postoperative stay, had higher rate of surgical site infection.

Keywords: single dose antibiotic prophylaxis, clean wounds, surgical site infection.