Research Journal of Pharmacology
ISSN: Online 1993-6019ISSN: Print 1815-9362
Abstract
Introduction Health care associated infections (HAIs) occur over the world in countries across all socioeconomic levels. Health care associated infections leads to higher disability, mortality, and increased unnessessary economic burden along with an increased risk of contracting antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common HAI in hospitals in low- and middle- income countries like India with a overall present prevalence of 12%. In India, the incidence has earlier has been recorded to vary between 5 and 24% on an average in studies from different geographic areas. Various factors associated with SSI can be patient-related factors (e. g., smoking, diabetes, other Comorbidities) or operation-related factors (e. g, duration of surgery, preoperative skin preparation). With the above main object present study was carried out at the department of surgery and department of Microbiology of hospital in Kolhapur India. The prospective study was conducted from September 2019 to February 2020. The Research Ethics Committee of the institution approved its study protocol before the implementation of study. A prospective study was conducted. The total period of the present study was from September 2019 to February 2020. The present study was conducted in the department of surgery and Microbiology of a tertiary-care hospital in the Kolhapur, India. This institute is a 650 bedded hospital for tertiary care of all kinds of medical diagnosis. All selected cases were operated by surgical team members by using Alcohol based hand scrub. Before performing the procedure all team used to take hand rub for decontaminating the hands, all surgical skin preparation before incision was done with the help of alcohol based scrub as per manufactures instruction instead of conventional povidone iodine and spirit. All surgeries were done under local anesthesia. In the present study not a single patient had superficial SSI or deep SSI. Day 3 swab collected from all the 50 cases were culture negative showing the absence of any causative organism. While performing skin preparation surgical team found that it was less time consuming and there was no skin discoloration so it was easy to take incision. The main aim of the current study was to know the efficacy of alcohol based surgical scrub for preventing the incidence of SSI’s during clean surgeries. In the present study, 50 patients were included after meeting the requirements of inclusion criteria. All patients received alcohol based surgical scrub as preoperative skin cleansing agent. Surgical team members used the same product for hand hygiene. The findings of the study indicate pre-op site antisepsis with alcohol based surgical scrub is effective in preventing SSI in clean and short duration surgeries. However, the choice of preoperative surgical-site antiseptic agent still remains a controversial topic for the operative doctors.
How to cite this article:
Hemangi Walke, Neeta Jangale, Vasant Deshmukh and Madhur Joshi. Efficacy of Water Less Alcohol-Based Surgical Scrub in Preventing Surgical Site Infection.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218\makrjms.2023.18.21
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