Abstract
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are important complications that cannot be prevented completely. We evaluated our wound therapies and the period required to obtain wound closure.
We retrospectively investigated 15 consulted cases, of which 8 cases were deep incisional SSI and 7 cases were organ / space SSI.
The mean periods of wound closure were 53.1 days in the deep incisional SSI group and 110.3 days in the organ / space SSI group. The mean lengths of hospital stay were 39.3 days and 72.7 days. The mean periods of our wound therapy were 49.1 days and 90.6 days. Negative pressure wound therapy was performed in 73% of cases and combined with skin graft and flaps.
Deep incisional SSI wounds could close in about 50 days by a plastic surgeon's interventions.
