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RISK FACTORS OF INFECTION FOLLOWING ORTHOPEDIC SURGERIES AT AN ACADEMIC HOSPITAL SARI – IRAN
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Mohammad Hossein Kariminasab   , Majid Sajadi Saravi , Masoud Shayesteh Azar * , Mehrdad Taghipoor , Milad Bahari , Oveis Sharifian , Shadi Shayesteh Azar |
| Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic, Fellowships of Hip, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran |
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| Objective: Nasocomial infections are the group of infections that afflict the patient that are admitted in the hospital. The aim of this study was to evaluate the infection rate after the orthopedic surgeries.
Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted in all of the hospitalized objects at orthopedic ward of Imam Khomeini hospital Sari-Iran during 2012.
Results: Among 1024 patients whom were examined 40 patients had postoperative complications (28 male and 12 female). There were no significant changes between the mean age of men versus women (p=0.64). In this regard there were no differences between the times of hospitalization between these groups (0.78). The mean time of postoperative infections in men was 88.7±72.1 and in women was 86.3±75 (p=0.43). Smoking was the most common risk factor went after by diabetes and hypertension.
Conclusion: The rate of postoperative infections in this center was the same as another part of the world. |
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| Keywords: Infection, Orthopedics, Surgery |
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