study of spread of infections in the surgical patients

Not yet recruiting

Brief Summary: An elaborate study of the cases with regard to date of admission, history, clinical features date of surgery, type of surgery, emergency or elective, preoperative preparation and postoperative management will be done till patient is discharged from hospital, and then follow up the patient on OPD basis for any signs of wound infection for 1 year.

The wounds will be examined for suggestive Signs/Symptoms of infection in the post-operative period, during wound dressing. In history, presenting complaints, duration, associated diseases, coexistent infections at a remote body site, personal history including diet, smoking, and alcoholism will be noted. Post-operative findings which included day of wound infection, day of 1st dressing and frequency of change of dressing.

Findings on the day of diagnosis of wound infection will be noted which includes fever, erythema, discharge, type and color and the exudates collected from the depth of the wound using sterile cotton swab and sent to microbiology department for culture and sensitivity. The specimens will be collected from patients with surgical site infection in wards/OT with a sterile stick with absorbent cotton swab and sent to the microbiology laboratory for bacterial culture and sensitivity to drugs. Blood investigation like CBC will be send and if required USG will be done.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Only elective general surgical cases involving clean and clean contaminated surgeries will be taken up for study.
Both sexes will be included.
18 to 60 years age groups will be included.
Patients who are willing to be part of this study will be taken.

Exclusion Criteria

Immunocompromised patient patients not willing to be part of the study emergency surgeries contaminated surgeries.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1-to know the risk factors and causes of SSIS	3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks
2-To know the prevalance of organisms isolated from SSIs and their sensitivity to various drugs	3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks
3-to identify the methods of prevention of SSIs	3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks
4-to have a protocol for treatment of SSIS	3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1-to DETERMINE RISK FACTORS PLAYING ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF SSI	2-To know the prevelance of organisms isolated from SSIs & their sensitivity to various drugs

Locations (1): Varun arjun medical college and Rohilkhand hospital
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Shahjahanpur, UTTAR PRADESH, India
Varun arjun medical college and Rohilkhand hospital
🇮🇳Shahjahanpur, UTTAR PRADESH, India
shashank singh
Principal investigator
8953592005
shashankblah@gmail.com