Orthopaedic surgical site infections: Prevalence, bacterial etiology, and antimicrobial resistance

Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs), the second most dreaded post-operative hospital-acquired infection, play an important role in the emergence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria owing to the practice of prophylactic antibiotic use. Even in the most advanced hospitals, SSIs are becoming more common, yet limited literature exists on the bacteriological profile and antimicrobial resistance. This cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of orthopaedic SSIs in traumatically operated patients’ one-month post-operation in correlation to antibiotic resistance in bacteria-causing SSIs.
Method: The demographic and surgical records of orthopaedic patients suffering post-operative SSI (clean or clean-contaminated wound) and examined in the Department of Microbiology, National Trauma Center, for aerobic bacteriological culture and susceptibility testing during three years (2020-2022) were analyzed with SPSS version 17.0.
Results: Among the total patients (n=1,438), 448 (median age..., Patient-related information (age and gender) and surgical-related information [sites and types of fracture, length (days) to develop postoperative infections, type of wound (clean, clean-contaminated, contaminated, or dirty-contaminated), bacterial strain, and antibiotic susceptibility pattern] were collected between January 20th and February 27th, 2023, from the hospital's electronic database. Collected data were assessed for statistical analyses between March 6th and March 28th, 2023.
The Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA), was used to import the exported data from Midas into Microsoft Excel version 10.0. The categorical variables were analyzed using frequencies and percentages in descriptive analysis. The median and interquartile ranges of patients' ages and lengths of postoperative infections were calculated. For two groups, the independent student t-test and chi-squared test were used to compare the strength of the associations betwe..., , # Orthopaedic surgical site infections: prevalence, bacterial etiology, and antimicrobial resistance

The dataset is of orthopaedic surgical site infections (SSIs) in traumatically operated patients’ one-month post-operation along with antibiotic susceptibility profiles of bacteria-causing SSIs.

Dataset comprises single sheet. The sheet details for demographic information, such as age and gender of the orthopaedic patients; clinical information, including fractures; microbiological findings comprising bacterial genera, antimicrobial resistance patterns, multi-drug-resistant or non-multi-drug-resistant, extesnsively-drug-resistant or non-extesnsively-drug-resistant. Exact age is removed and is categorized as age group in order to anonymize the data.

Data were anonymized with the code. Orthopaedic patients with bacterial infections were coded with serial number (1, 23, etc.).

Units of the study variables were standard and as follows:

(a) Age group Years

(b) Post operative time...