Research Article
Risk Factors Associated with Surgical Site Infection following Cesarean Section in Tertiary Care Hospital, Nepal
Table 2
Procedure-related characteristics of patients with SSI following cesarean section compared with control group.
| | Procedure-related characteristics | Case (SSI)
(%) | Control (non-SSI)
(%) | value1 |
| | Type of CS | | | 0.013 | | Emergency | 76 (95) | 65 (81) | | | Elective | 4 (5) | 15 (19) | | | Membrane rupture | | | 0.310 | | Artificial | 39 (57) | 27 (48) | | | Spontaneous | 29 (43) | 29 (52) | | | Duration of membrane rupture | | | | | ≤18 hours | 50 (80) | 54 (96) | 0.005 | | 18 hours | 13 (20) | 2 (4) | | | Number of PV examination | | | | | ≤5 times | 37 (46) | 50 (62) | 0.039 | | >5 times | 43 (54) | 30 (38) | | | Duration of surgery | | | 0.026 | | ≤60 minutes | 30 (38) | 44 (55) | | | >60 minutes | 50 (62) | 36 (45) | | | Status of labor | | | 0.002 | | NIL | 8 (10) | 24 (30) | | | ESOL/ASOL/SSOL | 72 (90) | 56 (70) | | | Blood loss during surgery (ml) | | | <0.037 | | 100-200 | 61 (83) | 71 (89) | | | 250-400 | 19 (23) | 9 (11) | |
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1Chi-square test and Fisher exact test. Denotes statistically significant at . |
