Surgical site infection is a type of health care-associated infection, in which a wound infection occurs after an invasive procedure. SSI has been shown to compose up to 20% of all health care -associated infection. SSI are among the most common complications of inpatient admission but majority are preventable.

This study was carried out at NMCH, Patna, Bihar on 500 patients during April 2016 to September 2017.The objective of the study was to determine the incidence of SSI among different type of surgeries and their relation to the type of wound and to identify the various pathogens causing SSI in our setting and to study their antibiotics sensitivity and resistance pattern and also to assess the various risk factors contributing to SSI in our hospital.

In this study the overall incidence is 9% with no significant difference between both Genders.SSI in emergency surgery (13.33%) was significantly higher than that of elective surgery (8.88%) and incidence was significantly higher in which duration of surgery was more than two hours. E.coli and klebsiella infection were significantly higher.

Keywords: SSI, Surgical site infection. 

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Dr Tushar Singh

Senior Resident, General Surgery, IGIMS, Patna, India