The role of preoperative antibiotics in the prevention of wound infection after day case surgery for inguinal hernia in children in Ile Ife, Nigeria.

Pediatric Surgery International
U E UsangO A Ademuyiwa

Abstract

Day case surgery for inguinal hernia had been an established practice of the Paediatric Surgery Unit, OAUTHC, Ile Ife for about two decades. In a retrospective review of the practice from the same center, a high incidence of postoperative wound infection was noted, which was attributed to the poor personal hygiene of the patients. This prospective study, therefore, was performed to evaluate the role of a single dose of preoperative antibiotic (using gentamicin) in the prevention of these wound infections after day case surgery for inguinal hernia in children. This was a prospective study carried out over a period of 8 months from 11 April 2004 to 20 December 2004. During this period, 88 children aged from birth to 15 years were randomized into two groups of equal numbers to undergo elective inguinal herniotomy. The children in the test group received prophylactic intravenous gentamicin, 30 min before a groin crease incision was made, while those in the control group did not. All patients were subsequently followed up for 32 days for any evidence of a wound infection. There were 104 wounds in the ratio of 50:54 in the control and test groups, respectively. All 54 wounds of the children who received prophylactic gentamicin healed...Continue Reading

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