EARLY INFECTION IN SURGERY OF IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS

Surgical site infections (SSI) impose a tremendous stress on a patient, his family, and his therapist; moreover, they add to the costs the healthcare system bears [6]. Infectious complications in surgery for idiopathic scoliosis (IS) may necessitate the removal of endocorrector, thus nullifying the results of correction of spinal deformity. No Russian-language publications covering this problem are available. According to foreign sources, the frequency of occurrence of early postoperative SSI at IS correction varies from 0.7 to 6.9 % [5, 9, 10, 11]. Most publications either focus on the results of studies of small groups of patients or follow multicenter studies in which data from various clinics are analyzed. The Spine Surgery Department for Children and Adolescents of Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics has a vast experience in surgical treatment of patients with IS using modern segmental instrumentation. The objective of this study is to analyze the current level of early postoperative septic complications in a large retrospective series of patients with idiopathic scoliosis operated on in the same clinic.