Table 2 Procedure specific data
All patients (n = 504) | Burst abdomen (n = 111) | Superficial SSI other than burst abdomen (n = 393) | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Most frequent pathologies (> 5%)(%) | ||||
Malignancy lower GI | 16.7 | 11.7 | 18.1 | |
Malignancy liver | 13.3 | 18.9 | 11.7 | |
Lower GI inflammation | 12.7 | 14.4 | 12.2 | |
Ileus | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.4 | |
Abdominal wall hernia | 8.3 | 3.6 | 9.7 | |
Liver transplantation | 7.3 | 9 | 6.9 | |
Malignancy pancreas | 6 | 5.4 | 6.1 | |
Malignancy upper GI | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.1 | |
Mesenteric ischemia | 1.6 | 5.4 | 0.5 | |
Surgical approach (%) | ||||
Open/Laparoscopic | 93.3/6.7 | 94.6/5.4 | 92.9/7.1 | 0.524 |
Most common types of laparotomy (%) | ||||
Median laparotomy | 50 | 53.2 | 49.1 | |
Transverse abdominal incision | 12.3 | 13.5 | 12.0 | |
Transverse abdominal incision with median epigastric incision | 13.9 | 20.7 | 12.0 | |
Median laparotomy with subcostal incision | 5.4 | 3.6 | 5.9 | |
Pfannenstiel's incision | 2.6 | 3.6 | 2.3 | |
Wound contamination class (%) | ||||
Clean | 7.1 | 6.3 | 7.4 | 0.713 |
Clean-contaminated | 46.6 | 46.8 | 46.3 | |
Contaminated | 19.2 | 22.5 | 18.3 | |
Dirty | 27.2 | 24.3 | 28.0 | |
Duration of surgery in min | 244.50 (± 144.109) | 248.70 (± 148.715) | 242.32 (± 142.32) | 0.745 |
Intestinal resection (%) | 22.6 | 42.3 | 17.0 | < 0.001* |
Emergency surgery (%) | 36.5 | 49.5 | 32.8 | 0.001* |