Abstract

ESCARPANTER BULIES, JULIO C; CRUZ SANCHEZ, PEDRO M.  and  ALFONSO RAMOS, DULCE M.. Hospital sepsis in orthopedics: A one-year study. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1996, vol.10, n.2, pp. 162-167. ISSN 1561-3100.

A one-year prospective study on the detection of hospital sepsis was conducted at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the "Comandante Pinares" General Teaching Hospital in San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río. Of the 802 discharged patients studied 688 of them had been operated on. 14 patients had sepsis at the local level (surgical wound); whereas 19 had it in other localizations. Poor final results were found in 64,2 % of the patients with local hospital sepsis and in 23,0 % of those with hospital sepsis in other localizations. Acceptable infections rates were established among which the rate of infection by clean wound of 2,4 % stood out. The most important conclusion is that hospital sepsis cause an irreversible damage and/or permanent sequelas in orthopedics.

Keywords : CROSS INFECTION [complications]; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES..