Muhamad Na'im B Ab Razak (jacknaim) is a fresh graduate Muslim Doctor from Universiti Sains Malaysia and waiting for the enrollment into the housemanship program. Ambitious in pursuing master program in emergency and traumatology medicine and loves to spent his free time joining humanitarian missions, writing and speaks as an amateur public speaker in motivation and comparative religion. [HOME]

Pharmacological Quiz (SSI)


Answer


1) Contaminated (inflamed and infected wound)

2) Antibiotics given to prevent infection (but infection is not yet present) because the risk of postoperative infection is present.

3) This wound is already infected; therefore patient must be on treatment against staphylococcus and fecal organism (anaerobes and gram negatives). By definition, there is no role of antimicrobials prophylaxis.

4) Non pharmacological methods to reduce surgical site infection

a) Shaving immediately before operation.

b) Maintain normothermia and avoid hypothermia.

c) Optimize oxygenation

d) Control the hyperglycemia by insulin subcutaneous injection before operation or insulin infusion during operation

e) Sterile surgical attire

f) Sterile surgical techniques.