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Surgical Wounds and Antimicrobial prophylaxis
Dr. Philip G. Murphy
Consultant in Medical Microbiology
Adelaide and Meath Hospitals incorporating the National Children’s Hospital.
History
• 1862 Pasteur
• 1865 Lister
• 1866 Semmelweiss
• 1940’s Antibiotic era
• Today ?? Postantibiotic era
• <2 %
Pathogenesis
• Skin flora into wound margins / deep sites
• risk factors eg haematoma, ischaemia, prostheses
• Bacterial virulence eg GNB + anerobes
Definitions
• Spectrum from wound margin erythema through local invasion, abscess, bacteraemia
Classifiaction and Rates
• Clean - no intrinsic bacterial flora <2 %• Clean / contaminated - involving
a viscus with bacterial flora 8%• Contaminated - involves spillage
of viscus content 15%• Dirty - involves inflamation or
viscus perforation 40%
Bacteriology
• UK Survey:
Staphylococci 40-45 %
GNB 40-45 %
other aerobes 6 %
anaerobes 5 %
• Specific surgery types have different rates:
Bacteriology
• Staphylococci and skin flora in bone and cardiac surgery
• GNB in biliary surgery
• Streptococci and anaerobes in gynae
• Colonic surgery:aerobic GNB 10 6-7 / G
Enterococci 10 5-6 / G
Bacteroides 10 9-11 /G
anaerobic cocci 10 10 / G
Prevention• Skin preparation:
skin cleaning, disinfection, opsite
• Bowel preparation:
No irrigation, diets, or non- absorbable antibiotics
• Theatre technique:
workflow zoning, air flow, CSSD, restricted staffing, aseptic technique etc.
• Wound managementDressing, no touch technique, closed drainage
Prophylaxis - principles
• First dose immediately pre-op
• maximum of 3 doses or 24h period
• Rarely > 24h
• parenteral, PR
• No non-absorbables
• Rarely required in clean or clean/contaminated
Prophylaxis - specific
Indication Antibiotic Durationabove knee amputation benzyl penicillin 1 dose
Cholecystectomy cefuroxime 1 dose
Appendicectomy metronidazole 3 doses
Colectomy Cefuroxime + 3 doses
metronidazole
vaginal hysterectomy as above as above
or augmentin
Prosthetic hip replacement cefuroxime 2 doses
Prosthetic heart valve cefuroxime or fluclox tid <48h
Vascular prosthesis as above as above
Treatment
• Topical Vs systemic
• Saline Vs disinfectant Vs antibiotic
• Target organisms Vs culture
• empirical Vs culture targetted
• one drug Vs two
• Remove all prostheses / implants
• pus collection drainage
Surveillance
• Infection Control Team
• Link nurses
• Databases
• Early discharge, day surgery
• Post discharge
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