Open AccessPrevention and Management of Surgical Site Infection after Cardiac Surgery: A Case Study
Author(s) -
Shinta Novelia,
Khomapak Maneewat
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian community health nursing research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2655-8629
pISSN - 2654-2900
DOI - 10.29253/achnr.2020.2133
Subject(s) - medicine , surgical site infection , disease , intensive care medicine , cardiac surgery , anxiety , surgery , psychiatry
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a major cause of prolonged hospital stay and resource consumption. It also leads to increased pain, anxiety, cause the prolonged recovery for patients, further risk of complications and in some cases are death especially among patients post cardiac surgery. The traditional model for infectious disease involved agents, host and environment. Availability of health services as environmental factors trigger nurses to provide infection prevention and management. Nurses take a major role and responsibility in prevention of SSI, but remain lack of adequate of it. Thus, this case study aimed to identify prevention and management of SSI among patients after cardiac surgery.