An Assessment Scale For Patients With Postoperative Superficial Incisional Surgical Site Infection.

[摘要] Any superficial surgical incision (SSI) may cause redness, delayed healing, fever, pain,tenderness, warmth, or swelling in postoperative state. These are some signs and symptoms for specifictypes of SSI: A SSI may produce pus from the wound site as well as leads to other complications.A cross- sectional study was conducted at the Department of Surgery in last one year. A sample of 100 patientswas randomly selected. We calculated our sample based upon a research conducted to identify riskfactors. We included 100 patients in present study of which, 22 had surgical site infection, whereas theremaining 78 patients had no infection.The current study presents the developed scale which consists ofthree parts, corresponding to the perioperative phases. We concluded that the developed assessmentscale for patients at risk of surgical site infection has good accuracy in distinguishing between patients atrisk of superficial incision SSI and those without. The scale is quick to administer, simple, and easy to use,but we cannot rely on it to diagnose SSI because of its low predictive value, but can be used as a guide oras an additional tool.

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] assessment scale;superficial surgical incision