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A Study of Port Site Infection After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies at Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Rajasthan

Sunder Kishore , Krishna Kumar Verma1 , Sunder Kishore2 , Manohar Lal Dawan3

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New Indian Journal of Surgery 11(2):p 207-210, April-June 2020. | DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21088/nijs.0976.4747.11220.20

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Krishna Kumar Verma, Sunder Kishore, Manohar Lal Dawan. A Study of Port Site Infection After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies
at Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Rajasthan. New Indian J Surg. 2020;11(2):207–210.
 

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Background: Port site infection though rare, shall be evaluated and studied so as to improve the quality of healthcare. Materials and Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the Department of General Surgery, Sardar Patel Medical College & P.B.M. Hospital,
Bikaner, Rajasthan. 300 patients of all age group and both sexes with symptomatic cholelithiasis undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Result: Out of 300 patients studied only 12 patients presented with port site infection. Most common organism was enterobacter specius (25.00%), Staphylococcus auras spp (16.67%), Enterobacter spp.
(16.67%) and E. coli (8.33%). Conclusion: It is concluded that port site infection are rare in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy and
can be further reduced by proper selection of patients, and strictly following basic principles of laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Keywords: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC); Port site infection; Micro-orgnism.

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Krishna Kumar Verma, Sunder Kishore, Manohar Lal Dawan. A Study of Port Site Infection After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies
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