Abstract
Few point prevalence surveys (PPS) have been conducted in Vietnam on Surgical Site Infections (SSI) or antimicrobial use in surgery. The objective of this study was to evaluate the PPSs of SSI before and after implementation of antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) and infection control (IC) in a Vietnamese tertiary care hospital. ASP and IC practices were implemented in operating rooms and the orthopedic department, including antibiotic training, skin preparation, hand hygiene, gloves and sterile instruments, and SSIs risk factors. A PPS of SSIs and antimicrobial use was performed in January 2016 according to methods from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, before ASP and IC, and in December 2019. Information recorded included surgical data, antibiotic prophylaxis, microorganisms, and SSI risk factors. Skin preparation compliance assessed preoperative washing and antisepsis. SSI prevalence was 7.8% in 2016 versus 5.4% in 2019 (p = 0.7). The use of prophylactic antibiotics decreased from 2016 to 2019. A third-generation cephalosporin was prescribed more than 48 h after surgery for most patients. Skin preparation compliance increased from 54.4% to 70.5% between assessments. The decreased SSI, although non-statistically significant, warrants continuing this program. Vietnamese hospitals must provide comprehensive IC education to healthcare workers to address the prevention of SSI and establish IC policies.
Funder
Direction Générale de l’offre de soins
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,Biochemistry,Microbiology
Reference24 articles.
1. Health care-associated infections—An overview;Haque;Infect. Drug Resist.,2018
2. Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries, systematic review and meta-analysis;Allegranzi;Lancet,2011
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2022, April 27). Surgical Site Infection (SSI) 2022, Available online: https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/pscmanual/9pscssicurrent.pdf.
4. Surgical site infection in elective clean and clean-contaminated surgeries in developing countries;Curcio;Int. J. Infect. Dis.,2019
5. World Health Organization (2019). Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, WHO.
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Methods of preventing surgical site infections;Ambulatornaya khirurgiya = Ambulatory Surgery (Russia);2024-05-17