Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

The Incidence of Deep Wound Infection after Spinal Instrumentation

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Saeid Karamouzian 1
Ehsan Keykhosravi 2
Farhad Sarraf 3
Mehrdad Noroozi 4
Hamid Jangi Aghdam 2
1 Assistant professor of Neurosurgery, Kerman university of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
2 Resident Neurosurgery, Kerman university of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
3 Assistant professor of Infectious disease, Kerman university of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
4 Assistant professor of Anesthesiology, Kerman university of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
10.22038/mjms.2012.163
Abstract
Introduction:
Infection is one of the most known complications in each surgery. Concerning the effects of this complication on the results of spinal column instrumentation we decided to assess the frequency of deep wound infection and it's related factors at Bahonar Hospital in city of Kerman.
Materials and Methods
In our study all 181 patients who had gone under spinal column instrumentation due to any causes except the infection were evaluated.
Results
The average of the patients' age was 34.8±13.5 years.  And 74% of them were male. Diabetes mellitus was seen in 7.2 % of the patients. Deep wound infection was seen in 8.8 (4.4%) patients, and among them 6 persons had diabetes melittus.
Conclusion
Diabetes mellitus was the only factor that significantly influenced the infection. (P value:  0.007). It seems that we need great attention to avoid wound infection.
Keywords
Infection
Instrumentation
Spinal column
Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 55, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
January 2013
Pages 237-241