Valdés MI, Vega NAM, Elías MY, Sánchez HMR, Borges SE

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ABSTRACT

Surgical site infection is a common cause of healthcare-associated infections in children. An analytic, observational, case-control study was carried out to patients between 29 days and 14 years of age, who went into surgical treatment in Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Hospital in Bayamo, from april 2016 to December 2017; with the objective to identify some risk factors associated to surgical site infections in children, by determining association between the infection and variables like age, gender, nutritional status, surgical site location, reoperations, hospital length of stay, comorbidity and complications. Samples were 108 patients, 27 cases and 81 controls, with relation of 1:3. Theoretical, empiric and statistical (Cox binary logistic regression) methods were used, considering a risk factor all result where Odds Ratio were bigger than one, interval confidence 95%. Data was analyzed with SPSS 20.0 software for Windows. Undernourishment, underlying disease, surgical site in abdominal cavity, reoperations, length of stay in the hospital of 7 days or more, and complications were significant risk factors associated to surgical site infections(p=0,000), factors independently associated to surgical site infections were male gender and underlying disease (p=0,005).