Clinical Parameters in Relation to Surgical Site Infection in Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

Surgical Site Infections forms an integral part of the surgical care that is provided to the patient. The better the surgical care provided minimal are the chances of having a surgical site infection, but the outcome depends not only on the surgical method and care applied but also on other intrinsic factors as well. In our study aimed at finding the correlation with those clinical parameters. The study was carried between January 2021 to January 2022in the Post-Graduate Department of Surgery, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS), Jammu. Data was collected of 100 surgeries where there was development of surgical site infections. The relevant history and investigation were performed after taking informed consent from the patient. Most the patient who developed SSI had a Hb between 9-12gm% with moderately raised WBC count in 72% of the individuals. Urine analysis of the patients was mostly normal and fasting blood sugar levels in most were reported as normal. In our study we found that SSI have an inverse relation with the hemoglobin levels of and individual while it has a direct relationship with the WBC count, blood urea levels. While the result on the fasting blood sugar levels, urine analysis and ESR were found insignificant.