aDepartment of Internal Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: mohdsaleem78631@yahoo.com
bDepartment of Internal Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: vaishlkw@yahoo.co.in
cDepartment of Community Medicine and Public Health, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: idrismz05@gmail.com
dDepartment of General Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: abhinavarunsonkar@gmail.com
eDepartment of Microbiology, King George's Medical University University, Lucknow, UP, India. E-mail: jyotsna_govil@yahoo.co.in
fDepartment of Microbiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India. E-mail: drmastansingh@rediffmail.com
gDepartment of Pulmoary Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: irfancsmmu@gmail.com
hDepartment of Microbiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: mahendrag15@gmail.com
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Online published on 7 August, 2013.
The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and related risk factors of nosocomial infection among the patients admitted in various departments of surgical wards. It was a cross-sectional hospital based in which the patients without evidence of initial infection, admitted in the Department of General Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery, King George's Medical University UP, Lucknow for surgical procedures were included in the study. Out of the total 225 patients observed, 45 (20%) had nosocomial infection. The prevalence was almost similar among male (20.4%) and female (19.3%) patients. Older patients were significantly more effected than younger patients (<=35 years=17%, >35 years=23%, p=0.04, OR=0.65, 95%CI=0.43–0.99). the Escherichia coli (77.8%) was the most common organism observed among the patients of surgical wards followed by Staphylococcus aureus (57.8%), Acinetobacter baumanii (53.3%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (37.8%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (28.9%), Enterococcus faecalis and Coagulase negative Staphylococci (24.4%). Based on this study, we found that surgical site infection is a more common nosocomial infection in general surgical ward than others. The studies with large sample are required to get more robust estimate of nosocomial infections in the surgical wards.
Prevalence, Nosocomial infections, surgical wards
