Prevalência de infecções hospitalares em cirurgias limpas em um hospital do norte gaúcho

Abstract

Rationale and objective: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of hospital nosocomial infections and antimicrobial prophylaxis of clean surgeries in a hospital in the North ern Brazil. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was carried out by collecting data from 92 medical records of patients who presented infection due to clean surgens from 2015 to 2017. A structured and previously evaluated form was used and sociodemographic, patients and microbiological and surgical data were collected of each patient in the period. Results: 15,736 clean surgeries were performed. Of these, a total of 92 exhibited signs of infection, revealing a prevalence of 0.58%, being 25 (0.44%) in 2015, 33 (0.62%) in 2016 and 34 (0.7%) in 2017. Staphylococcus aureus was the most frequent etiological agent. Conclusion: The hospital invaluated in this study displayed a low infection rate and can be considered a reference to good prophylaxis practices to avoid infection surgical proceduces.