Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, RVS Institute of Medical Sciences, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Assistant Professor, Department of General Surgery, RVS Institute of Medical Sciences, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, RVS Institute of Medical Sciences, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, RVS Institute of Medical Sciences, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India.
IEC ,patient satisfaction ,patient care ,

Introduction: Besides nosocomial infections like urinary tract infection that results from a hospital stay due to unhygienic sanitation, surgical site infection (SSI) is the second most common nosocomial infection that is reported in most of the tertiary care hospitals especially in developing countries like India. SSI’s are seen in all types of surgeries of a tertiary care sector which include obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, orthopedics and also gastrointestinal surgeries. These SSI’s sometime directly and many times indirectly affects the reputation of the hospital. This is because, lesser the incidents of nosocomial infection higher is the quality of service provided by the hospital. Materials and Methods: Name of the institute: RVS Multi-Specialty Hospitals. Location: RVS Nagar, Chittoor, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Department of study: surgical gastroenterology, orthopedic surgery, gynec surgery and pediatric surgery departments of the study hospital. Duration of study: study was carried out for a period of 6 months in 2017-2018. Results and Discussion: About 321 patients were enrolled into the study from all the departments of RVS Multi-Specialty Hospitals, Chittoor. All the patients enrolled into the study were undergone with surgery based on individual patient’s clinical condition. Various trends of infection by microorganisms are analysed n laboratory settings in all the patients suspected to have an infection. Various trends of isolates observed were gram positive, gram negative, Candida species, and gram negative SSI. Conclusion: From this study it is concluded that nearly 10.9% of the overall patients are affected with nosocomial and non-nosocomial infections, thus, measure should be taken for better management of patients and to understand the route causes of infections leading to discomfort of patients. Among various trends of infections, infection with gram negative bacteria were of high in incidence

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