Colorectal Surgical Site Infection

Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgical Site Infection

Treatments: Procedure: Bundle of measures to decreased SSI

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05355376

0003

Details and patient eligibility

About

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common postoperative complications in surgery, with high morbidity. In the tertiary-center that the investigators evaluated they had a significant rate of surgical site infection. Because of that the investigators created a care bundle of measures in order to improve the outcomes.

Full description

Prospectively the investigators implemented a care bundle of measures with retrospective analysis, to decrease SSI . The superficial, deep and organ/space infections were evaluated and compared before and after care bundle implementation.

Between january 1, 2016 and December 31, 2020, 1139 patient records relating to surgical incisions were submitted for analysis.

Enrollment: 1,139 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients submitted to elective colorectal surgery between 2016, january 1 and 2020, december 31
• Age > 18 years
• At least 30 days of follow-up

Exclusion criteria

• Patients submitted to urgent colorectal surgery