904 - Surgical Site Infection After Bariatric Surgery: a Small Risk that Defines Life and Death of Patients

The ePoster content is available to users who are logged in.<br><br>Please log in and then come back here to use this button.

Presenting Author(s)

LUCCA G. GIAROLA

Medical Student
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Co-Author(s)

CE

Carlos Ernesto Ferreira Starling

MD
Lifecenter Hospital
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Braulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto

Professor (PhD)
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
HD

Handerson Dias Duarte de Carvalho

Student
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte - UniBH
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) in bariatric surgery can lead to devastating outcomes such as peritonitis, sepsis, septic shock and organ space infection. The objective of our study is to answer four questions: a) What is the SSI risk after bariatric surgery? b) What are the risk factors for SSI after bariatric surgery? c) What are the main outcomes to SSI in bariatric surgery? d) What are the main bacteria responsible for SSI in bariatric surgery?

Methods: A retrospective cohort study assessed 8,672 patients undergoing bariatric surgery between 2014/Jan and 2018/Dec from two hospitals at Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Data were gathered by standardized methods defined by the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)/CDC procedure-associated protocols for routine SSI surveillance. Outcome: SSI, hospital death and total length of hospital stay. 20 preoperative and operative variables were evaluated by univariate and multivariate analysis (logistic regression).

Results: 77 SSI were diagnosed (risk = 0.9% [C.I.95% = 0.7%;1.1%]). Mortality rate in patients, without infection was only 0.03% (3/8,589) while hospital death of infected patients was 4% (3/77; RR = 112; p< 0.001). Hospital length of stay in non-infected patients (days): mean = 2, std.dev.= 0.9; hospital stay in infected patients: mean = 7, std. dev. = 15.6 (p< 0.001). Two main factors associated with SSI after bariatric surgery were identified by logistic regression: duration of procedure (hours), OR = 1.4;p=0.001, and laparoscopy procedure, OR = 0.3;p=0.020. From 77 SSIs, in 28 (36%) we identified 34 etiologic agents. The majority of SSI (59%) was caused by species of Streptococcus (32%), Klebsiella (15%), and Enterobacter (12%).

Conclusion: SSI is rare after bariatric surgery, however, when it happens, it’s a disaster for the patient. The incidence of SSI can be reduced significantly when laparoscopy procedure is used and the surgeon is able to perform a rapid surgery.