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Infected Urine as a Risk Factor for Postprostatectomy Wound Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Santiago Richter ,
Ruth Lang ,
Fruma Zur  and
Israel Nissenkorn
Santiago Richter*
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Sava and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ruth Lang
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Sava and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Fruma Zur
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Sava and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Israel Nissenkorn
Affiliation:
Department of Urology, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Sava and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
*
Department of Urology, Sapir Medical Center, 44 281 Kfar Sava, Israel
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Abstract

Objective:

To study the relation of preoperative infected urine and postprostatectomy wound infection in patients with and without indwelling bladder catheters.

Design:

Patients undergoing prostatectomy were evaluated for the presence of infected urine prior to prostatectomy and postoperative wound infection. They were further divided into patients with indwelling urinary catheter and catheter-free patients. All had received antibiotic prophylaxis.

Patients:

One hundred fifty consecutive patients undergoing open prostatectomy-mean age was 67 years; 100 patients with an indwelling catheter for a mean period of 50 days; 50 catheter-free patients.

Results:

Wound infection was found in 19 of 81 (23.5%) and in 6 of 69 (8.7%) patients with infected and sterile urine, respectively p = .028). In patients with indwelling catheters prior to operation, wound infection was 22.4% when urine was infected and 8.3% when it was not. In patients without catheters, infected urine was associated with 40% of wound infections, as compared with 8.9% of wound infections in patients with sterile urine. Organisms obtained from infected wound and urine were identical in 84% of cases. These results were obtained despite antibiotic prophylaxis.

Conclusions:

Wound infection has been demonstrated to be a postprostatectomy complication directly related to the presence of urinary infection at surgery; thus, elective prostatectomy should be deferred until urine becomes sterile.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 147 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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