Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. A prospective study involved patients underwent elective Cesarean section surgeries in the first ten months of with a follow up period of 90 days. The wound infection incidence was Obese patients who underwent Cesarean sections were found to have higher risk to develop wound infections. A larger scale study is needed to determine other associated risk factors. Even with negative cultures in infected wounds; bacilli and cocci, especially staphylococci, were found on the surface of sutures.
Thus, external sutures act as foreign bodies that can be a source of infection and cause SSI 2. Both of deep tissue infection and organ or space infection can occur within 30 or 90 days after the operation 3.
According to the English National Prevalence Survey, the prevalence for nosocomial infections was 6. In a more recent survey that included acute care hospitals, SSI was the second nosocomial infection after pneumonia with a rate of The SSI rate in high-income countries was found to be around 5.
Similarly, Jenks and colleagues 8 found in their two years prospective study in England that the rate of SSI was around 5. In India, which is considered moderate-income country, the rate of SSI was 7. In Jordan, a study concluded that the overall nosocomial infections rate was For Cesarean section C-section only surgeries, a study was conducted at another educational hospital and reported an SSI rate of If we compare the previous reported rate in Jordan with India where the rate for obstetric and gynecological SSI was 7.
Regarding the types of SSI, Jenks and colleagues 8 concluded that Furthermore, 3. In addition, patients who developed SSI during admission were three times more likely to need readmissions more than those who did not develop SSIs. For this reason, post discharge survey is needed to estimate accurate incidence 1.
