Surgical Site Infection in Gastroenterological Emergency Surgery

Abstract

We investigated the present status of surgical site infection (SSI) in gastroenterological emergency surgery based on the surveillance data of our institute. The rate of SSI in the 217 patients studied was 31.3%, and it was significantly higher than that of the patients who underwent operations in scheduled procedures. Among the emergency procedures, the rate of SSI was more than 50% in the patients who were operated on for gastrointestinal perforation. The factors associated with SSI in the group of patients with gastrointestinal perforation were age and intraoperative blood loss, and age was the only independent risk factor for SSI in these patients according to a multiple logistic regression analysis.