Authors : Dr Ziauddin Mohammed; Rupa Aerram; P. Nikitha Chauhan; Rapolu Mounika; Mohammed Abbas
Volume/Issue : Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 8 - August
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Surgical site infection are infections that
occur among surgical patients. Appropriate
administration of surgical prophylaxis reduces the rate
of surgical site infection by providing an adequate level
of antimicrobial agents at the surgical site and tissue at
the time of incision and during surgery. Objective: This
study is to evaluate the prescribing pattern of antibiotics
in surgical prophylaxis in tertiary care hospitals.
Method: This study has been conducted in Tertiary Care
Hospitals. During the six months, we collected data of
around 100 surgical patients. Our research has included
clean and clean-contaminated wound surgery cases of all
age groups with multi-department, and dirty/infected
surgical wound class has been excluded. Results: A total
of 100 patients were in this study, out of which 35% were
female and 65% male. In the department of general
surgery, the most commonly used antimicrobial agents
were inj. Cefoperazone sodium + sulbactam and
Ceftriaxone (38%%) followed by inj. Amoxicillin +
Clavulanic acid (14%). The majority of the
Cefoperazone sodium+ sulbactam were used in the
Urology surgical cases i.e., 12% and ceftriaxone was
used in the Neurological surgical cases i.e., 13%
respectively. In surgeries, 92% patients were with the
category of Clean wound class, 6% of patients were
under the category of clean-contaminated wound class,
1% of patients were under the category of contaminated
wound class. Conclusion: In this study, majority of the
patients were on at least one antibiotic. The most
commonly used class of antimicrobial were found to be
cephalosporin (cefoperazone sodium+sulbactum and
Ceftriazone) and Penicillin (Amoxicillin and Clavulanic
acid). Three adverse drug reactions were reported which
were found to be mild in severity and recovered.
Majority of the cases were under Orthopedics with
antibiotics Cefoperazone sodium+ sulbactam
(Cephalosporins). Overall, the study illustrates
appropriate antibiotics were utilized as prophylactic in
surgical cases depending upon the type of surgery from
various specialtie