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Factors associated with surgical site infections in ecuadorian hospitals

Abstract:

Introduction: surgical site infections are the most frequent than hospital infections, surpassing urinary tract, sepsis and respiratory infections, health personnel are responsible for preventing the production of post-surgical infections, technique and care provided by health personnel will avoid post-surgical complications. Objective: To determine the factors associated with surgical site infections in patients undergoing abdominal surgery in a conventional and laparoscopic manner in the Hospitals: Vicente Corral Moscoso and Homero Castanier Crespo Materials and methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in 384 patients undergoing abdominal surgery in a conventional and laparoscopic manner in the Hospitals: Vicente Corral Moscoso of the city of Cuenca and Homero Castanier Crespo of the city of Azogues. The study was carried out by the Backgroun review of medical records, swabs were also used for the sampling of patients with infected surgical wounds whose values were recorded in a data collection sheet. Statistical analysis used odds ratio and chi-contrasts. Pearson’s square to observe association between the variables studied, a value of p <0.05 was considered statistical significance Results: The factors associated to produce an infection in the surgical site were: being an active smoker, sex (male), age (45 or more), conventional surgery and an intervention greater than two hours, appendix surgery, like other pathologies of the patients, he showed high blood pressure and diabetes. Conclusions: 6% of the patients who acquired infection at the intervention site were male between 45 years and older, who had a conventional surgery lasting more than two hours.