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Preventing surgical site infection using operating room bundle of care in patients undergoing elective exploratory laparotomy cholecystectomy surgery Cover

Preventing surgical site infection using operating room bundle of care in patients undergoing elective exploratory laparotomy cholecystectomy surgery

Open Access
|Sep 2023

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

The conceptual framework of operating room bundle of care in the prevention of surgical site infection.

Figure 2.

Research framework.

Table 1.

Patients wound status based on BWAT in the control group.

BWAT scoreDay 1 Hemostasis phaseDay 2 Inflammatory phaseDay 3 Proliferative phase
F%F%F%
18.013.3
19.0930.0
20.01446.7
21.013.3620.0
21.513.3
22.0413.3
22.513.3
23.0516.7
23.526.7
24.0723.3
25.0620.0
26.0620.026.7
27.0413.313.3
28.0826.7
29.0413.3
30.0826.7
Total30100.030100.030100.0
Mean28.1323.7319.83
SD1.481.440.79
VI.Mild severityMild severityMinimal severity
Table 2.

Patients’ wound status based on BWAT in the experimental group.

BWAT scoreDay 1 Hemostasis phaseDay 2 Inflammatory phaseDay 3 Proliferative phase
F%F%F%
15.01136.7
16.01343.3
17.0620.0
18.0
19.0516.7
20.0413.3
21.026.7
21.513.3
22.01136.7
22.513.3
23.0413.3
23.5
2413.3
24.513.3
25.0
26.0
27.026.7
28.01653.3
29.0723.3
30.0516.7
Total30100.030100.030100.0
Mean28.5021.4515.83
S.D.0.861.540.75
VIMild severityMild severityMinimal severity
Table 3.

The day-to-day comparison of patients’ wound status after the application of usual care and operating room bundle of care.

Phases of wound healing processMeanSDChi-squareP-value
Control group60P = = 0.000<0.05*
   Hemostasis28.131.48
   Inflammatory23.731.44
   Proliferative19.830.79
Experimental group60P = 0.000<0.05*
   Hemostasis28.50.86
   Inflammatory21.451.54
   Proliferative15.830.75

1 Note: *P<0.05 is the level of significance.

Table 4.

Differences in patients’ wound status between control and experimental groups after application of the operating room bundle of care and usual care per day of evaluation.

Day of evaluationMeanSDMann–WhitneyP-valueInterpretation
Day 1 Hemostasis phase390P = 0.355> 0.05Not significant
   Control28.131.48
Experimental28.50.86
Day 2 Inflammatory phase129.5P = 0.000< 0.05Significant
   Control23.731.44
Experimental21.451.54
Day 3 Proliferative phase0P = 0.000< 0.05Significant
   Control19.830.79
Experimental15.830.75

1 Note: *P < 0.05 is the level of significance.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2023-0037 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
Language: English
Page range: 335 - 345
Submitted on: Jul 21, 2022
Accepted on: Dec 15, 2022
Published on: Sep 21, 2023
Published by: Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2023 Erika Leslie R Magat, Josephine M De Leon, published by Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.