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WOUND INFECTION RATES AFTER GASTRIC SURGERY IN A MELBOURNE HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
Kune Gabriel A.,
Hunt Roland
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1983.tb02437.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pyloroplasty , perioperative , gastrectomy , cancer , antibiotics , surgery , vagotomy , gastroenterology , sepsis , staphylococcus aureus , mortality rate , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , genetics , bacteria
In four groups of 25 patients in whom perioperative prophylactic antibiotics were not used, the wound infection rates after partial gastrectomy were 40% in gastric cancer, 44% in chronic gastric ulcer, 24% in chronic duodenal ulcer and after trunkal vagotomy and pyloroplasty, the wound infection rate was 12%. In gastric cancer and chronic gastric ulcer, most wound infections were caused by enterobacteria, while in chronic duodenal ulcer almost all infections were caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Appropriate short‐term perioperative prophylactic antibiotic use is likely to decrease wound sepsis rate in patients who have a gastric resection in the presence of gastric cancer or gastric ulcer.