DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i12.003

Pages: 3849-3852

Background: Surgical site infection is a serious complication of surgery. Present observational study is aimed to describe common organism patter in surgical site infection in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: A total of 120 patients underwent routine abdominal surgery and who had a preoperative preparation with ASA score I and II were recruited into this study. The study was conducted at the Department of Surgery, during a period of one and half years in Chittagong Medical College Hospital from December 2012 to May 2014. Post-operative infection rate was calculated. Results: In this study mean age was 49.5 ± 16.4 years where maximum patients were between 41-60 years age group. Male were predominant (161) and male to female ratio was 2.09: 1. Different types of operation done where among the 120 patients, most common operation was colorectal (43.3%), after that was gastric (30%), biliary was 18.3% and others was 8.3%. Regarding duration of operation among it was found that majority of the operations were completed in 1-3 hours. Post-operative wound infection revealed in the form of erythema, discharge of pus and wound dehiscence which was found in 6(5%) cases. Different organisms were analyzed in 25 preoperative culture positive cases where 20(80%) had Staphylococcus but postoperative it was 4 cases rest were infected with E coli and pseudomonas. Conclusion: Surgical site infection is not common now days and if present staphylococcus is common and sterile surgery is needed to prevent surgical site infection.