Beta
279933

The Effect of Surgical Wound Infection on Postoperative Hospital Stay

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Patients who experience any postoperative complication have longer hospital stays. Infection at the surgical site is the major cause of postoperative problems and lengthening of hospital stays. However, numerous variables contribute to the development of surgical site infections. Objective: The present study is aimed to investigate the effect of surgical wound infection on postoperative hospital stay. Patients and methods: This study was conducted in Al Hussein and Al Mokatam General Hospital from February to August 2022 on 20 cases. Complete history and demographic data were obtained along with complete physical examination from all participants. All data regarding characters of the surgical wound and time of discharge was recorded. Results: Mean age in the included patients was 42.22 (SD 10.94) years. Mean weight was 87.72 (SD 13.5) kg. Mean height was 166.56 (SD 5.88) cm. Postoperative Hb reached 11.36 (SD 0.54) g/dl. Among 20 patients included in the study lower segment cesarean section (LSCS) was reported in 4 (20%) of cases, myomectomy was in 3 (15%) and total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) was in 13 (65%) cases. Mean time to discharge in gapped wound was 2.5 (SD 2.1) days. Time to discharge was significantly increased in cases with gapped wound. There was significant negative correlation between hospital stay and good wound. Conclusion: Depending on the surgical category, the length of hospital stays and wound characteristics related to surgical site infection (SSI) vary greatly by identifying the surgical techniques that have a SSI unfavourable effect that is more severe. A strong inverse relationship exists between hospitalisation and healing wounds.  

DOI

10.21608/ejhm.2023.279933

Keywords

Surgical Site Infection, Length of hospital stay, Time to discharge, Case series, Al-Azhar University

Authors

First Name

Ahmed Mohamed

Last Name

Saeed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

-

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed Osama Abdelmotaal

Last Name

Abdelmeguid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

-

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Wael abd Elatief

Last Name

Khafagy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

-

Email

waelkhafagy2019@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

90

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

38787

Issue Date

2023-01-01

Receive Date

2023-01-11

Publish Date

2023-01-01

Page Start

775

Page End

779

Print ISSN

1687-2002

Online ISSN

2090-7125

Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/article_279933.html

Detail API

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=279933

Order

110

Type

Original Article

Type Code

606

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

Publication Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

The Effect of Surgical Wound Infection on Postoperative Hospital Stay

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023