Abstract

AGUIAR DA CRUZ, Lidiane et al. Wound infection after cesarean section in a public hospital from Fortaleza. Enferm. glob. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.29, pp.105-117. ISSN 1695-6141.

This study aims to characterize the cases of wound infection after cesarean section in women who underwent the operation in the period 2008 to 2010 in a public hospital in Fortaleza. It is a retrospective documentary study, with a quantitative approach, with 51 form notifications of women in hospital with cesarean infections, those forms that were not properly completed were excluded. Of the 51 forms reporting of women in hospital with cesarean infections, five did not meet the inclusion criteria, resulting in a sample of 46 report forms showing women in hospital undergoing cesarean sections. The average age of patients was 26.57 years old, aged between 14 and 40, median of 24 and standard deviation of 8.1. In this study, it was observed that the 46 patients infected by their operations had admission diagnostics diversified in a way that the diagnostic of the birth process stands out with 19 patients. 45 of the patients showed signs and symptoms characteristic of this type of infection, the predominant age group with the diagnosis of infection at the surgical site was 20-29 years, the surgical site infections that occurred most frequently were surface infections with 31 women affected and all patients progressed to discharge. We conclude this work with the fact that even with advanced and careful hygiene techniques on the part of health care professionals the number of women who develop surgical site infection after cesarean section is still significant.

Keywords : Puerperal infection; cesarean section; hospital infection.

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