Prevalencia de infecciones postquirúrgicas en un hospital de la ciudad de Guayaquil, septiembre 2020 - agosto 2021.

Abstract

Post-surgical infections is the introduction of microorganisms to the surgical site, 10 days after the intervention, accompanied by the main symptoms such as pus or positive swab of microorganisms, fever, pain; The objective is to determine the prevalence of post-surgical wound infections in patients from the trauma area in a specialty hospital in the city of Guayaquil, September 2020 - August 2021; Design: descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional, retrospective; Population 150 patients; Instrument: data collection matrix through medical records; Technique: Indirect observation; Results: with respect to the sociodemographic data, the cases prevail, in 80% with ages of 52 years of age, 42% suffer from diabetes, locating in the preoperative evaluation in ASA III that indicates patients with serious non-disabling diseases, with 52 %; When evaluating the wounds, the contaminated, dirty and deep penetrating wounds are presented with 50%, therefore, the most frequent microorganisms were Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with 28%, causing complications such as increased hospital stay, germs multiresistant, progression of sepsis; Discussion: According to several researches carried out by authors, they report that it affects men the most, suffering from diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, the wounds are penetrating deep cuts; Conclusions: it was determined that wound infections present a serious health problem, difficult to prevent, being demonstrated in the high incidence of cases in health centers or hospitals due to complications of post-surgical infections.