Study of short course prophylactic antibiotic treatment (24hrs) in clean surgeries

摘要

Surgical site infections are the third most common type of nosocomial infections(over 70%). In any hospital, perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis constitutes the bulk of antimicrobial consumption. We need to adapt policies that decrease the incidence of such infections in order to bring the morbidity associated with surgeries to a lower level. A set of patients undergoing clean surgeries from July 2016 to Februaury 2017 under Surgical 2nd unit of Bowring and Lady Curzon hospital(Affiliated to Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute) are included in our study. During this period, a total of 400 patients participated. 24hrs of antibiotic prophylaxis was used for the patients during this period. In our study surgical site infection rate is 3.25 % in clean surgeries.Our findings indicate that a short course of perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis(24hrs) are sufficient and efficacious as well as cost-effective for prevention of surgical site infections in clean surgeries in Indian surgical set up.