Frequency Of Hospital-acquired Infections In Isfandyar Bukhari District Hospital Attock

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Abstract

Objective: to ascertain the incidence of hospital-acquired infections at the IBD Hospital, Attock’s surgical departments.

Study Design: a prospective cross-sectional study. Place and study duration: IBD Hospital, Attock, from March 2016 to March 2017.

Methodology: The research comprised 10,238 patients, both sexes, aged 5 to 60, who had wound infections within a month after different surgical operations. Pus was collected and moved, and conventional methods were used for the microbiological tests. Participants in the trial were not allowed to have any co-morbid conditions, such as diabetes, liver disease, TB, or any known pre-operative infection, or to have had surgery for cancer. We looked for several kinds of infections in the patient’s culture results.

Result: Twelve male and ten female patients, or 22 out of 10238, satisfied the criteria for nosocomial infection. The most frequently isolated organism was Staphylococcus aureus (35.5%), which was followed by E. coli (24%), pseudomonads (14.8%), and Klebsiella (6.5%).

Conclusion: Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequent pathogen that causes nosocomial infections (at the surgical site), followed by Pseudomonas and E. coli.