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Abstract
Post operative wound infection is stili one of the major
complications that follow any surgical procedure.
It is estimated that 325,000 post operative wound
infections (POWI) occur each year in (USA) after emergency
surgical procedures giving rise to annual cost between 130 and
845 million dollers/year (Khalil, l994).
It can occur at any medical center all over the world,
even at those applying the most recent and strict antiseptic
measures (Lidwell et al., 1982).
For any given type of operation, the development of
wound infection will approximately double the cost of
hospitalization (Alexander, l986). Reduction of sepsis will be
beneficial for the patients themselves, for the hospital staff and
for lhe community as a whoie.
One of the methods to prevent (POWI) is the
administration of prophylactic antibiotics in surgery, searching
for the predisposing factors for (POWI) and the best method to
reduce it, but no one has revealed 100% success (Alexander,
1985).
In Ain Shams University hospitals, the POWI rate after
general surgical procedures is common and ranging from as
low as 15% to as high as over 67% giving rise to an annual cost
between 4-12 million egyptian pounds/year.
In addition to the health care costs, the morbidity and
mortality that results from POWI are substantial and it is likely