Short Communication
English
Ibrahim Al –Ghaweel ¹, Salem Mehdwi ², Joel Prashant Jack ³, Irene Joel ³
1- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Al- Arab Medical University. 2- Department of Orthopaedics, Al-Jala Hospital. 3 -Department of Environment, Faculty of Public Health, Al Arab Medical Sciences University, Benghazi, Libya
JMJ Vo1. 8 No.4 (Winter) 2008:293-295
Abstract
Surgical site infections are a common complications of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. Although systematic surveillance for such infections remain a challenge. The current study was undertaken at Al- Jala hospital, Benghazi. Surgery cases were identified and were classified based on the type of surgery, time taken for the surgery, pre and postoperative antibiotic treatment and the use of biocompatible implant material used. From the results, it is evident that 50%(17.6 ± 13) of patients with orthopaedics biocompatible implant cases were found with surgical site infections compared to patients undergoing other surgery. The risk factors which are responsible for SSI are discussed briefly.
Keywords: Surgical site infection(SSI), Surveillance
Link/DOI: http://www.jmj.org.ly/PDF/winter2008/293.pdf