Abstract
Background- Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is defined as pain associated with erythema, induration, local tenderness, pus discharge or any culture positive or negative discharge from a surgically created wound.
 Methods- Descriptive type of Observational study conducted on Patients in the department of Orthopaedics.
 Results- 6.00% patients have wound infection. Gram positive 83.33% patients have found with Staph. Aureus and Gram- negative 16.67% patients have found with Pseudomonas.
 Conclusion- Infection in closed fractures with implants was quite high. The adverse outcome of SSIs related to a clean orthopedic surgical procedure can be associated with significant morbidity, cost, and even mortality.
 Keywords- SSI, Closed, Implants
Highlights
Background- Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is defined as pain associated with erythema, induration, local tenderness, pus discharge or any culture positive ornegative discharge from a surgically created wound
The adverse outcome of SSIs related to a clean orthopedic surgical procedure can be associated with significant morbidity, cost, and even mortality
Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is defined as pain associated with erythema, induration, local tenderness, pus discharge or any culture positive or negative discharge from a surgically created wound.[1]
Summary
Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is defined as pain associated with erythema, induration, local tenderness, pus discharge or any culture positive or negative discharge from a surgically created wound.[1]. One of the strategies used is the determination of risk factors, which allows identifying clinical situations or conditions that predispose to the development of SSI. In this sense, the identification of risk factors for SSI contributes to the early adoption of nursing interventions that aim to minimize this type of postoperative complication.[4] SSI is a great disaster in terms of financial burden on the hospital resources, morbidity and mortality. The rationale of the study is to monitor the SSI rate in orthopaedic implant surgeries and its common causative organisms in our population undergoing orthopaedic implant surgery and if the frequencies are found significantly higher than other studies, device measures to help reduce its frequency and decrease both financial burden of the state and morbidity and mortality of the patients. This study will provide us fresh local data regarding bacteriology of SSI of orthopaedic implants surgery and will guide us in setting future recommendation for rational use of antibiotics.Materials and Methods
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