Wound Treatment in Relation to Surgical Site Infections | ||||
The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
Article 11, Volume 69, Issue 4, October 2017, Page 2245-2249 PDF (232.22 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.12816/0041524 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Abdullah Mohammed Alkhamri1; Zainab Mohammed Al Sulaiman2; Nojood Hassan A Turkey3; Abdullah Rashed Alaboudi4; Sarhabdulhadi M Fallata5; Khaled Saad Aljedaani3; Zahra Ali A Ahussain6; Sarah Abdullah Altarouti7; Alaaeid Aljohani8; Amr Mohammed Aldrees9; Yousef Safar Alsahli10; Ahmed Abdulaziz Alrajhi11; Sama Mohammed Al Sulaiman3; Meshary Saad Alsohim9; Anwar Abdullatif S Alhulaibi6 | ||||
1King Saud University | ||||
2Gulf Medical University | ||||
3King Abdulaziz University | ||||
4Qassim University | ||||
5Batterjee Medical College | ||||
6King Faisal University | ||||
7B.A.U , Lebanon | ||||
8Ohud Hospital, Medina | ||||
9Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University | ||||
10PHC Riyadh | ||||
11Imam University | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Background: Surgical wounds heal by essential purpose in all the elective and emergency surgical processes. Current practice is to place dressing over the closed wound before the patient leaves the sterile environment of the operating theatre. Dressing is a material used to protect a wound and help its healing. On the other hand, to leave wound open in direct contact to environment following any procedure by only applying some ointment on it, the purported open wound treatment is yet debatable one. In the current study we have compared open wound treatment versus occlusive dressings in elective surgical cases with respect to surgical site infections. Materials and Methods: The current study was directed on 50 patients experienced for elective general surgery. Patients were divided randomly in to two equal groups each containing of 25 patients. In Group 1, patients had occlusive dressing till removal of stitches and in Group 2, patients wounds were retained exposed to environment after the surgical procedure. The study was done after approval of ethical board of King Abdulaziz university. Results: In the current study, we perceived total 7% of postoperative wounds were infected of all the clean and clean contaminated wounds we studied. In Group 1, patients had occlusive dressing and these patients had 8% infection rate whereas in Group 2 patients, wounds were kept exposed to the environment and these patients had 6% infection rate. Conclusion: It is thus, concluded that in the elective surgical cases there was no damage in leaving the wounds open postoperatively. This process not only supports in arresting the infective pathology at a reduced stage but likewise saves surgeon’s time and patient’s cash. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Surgical Site Infection; dressing; Infection; Surgical wound | ||||
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