Surgical procedures and their correlation with the rate of nosocomial infection: negative impacts on the recovery process of inpatients in the Paraense Amazon

Abstract

The study aimed to bring current data on hospital infections, identifying the number of infections in four years in five hospitals in western Pará (Brazil). Data collection was carried out by consulting the information bank of the Health Department of the Municipality of Santarém. These hospitals operate in the municipality of Santarém, in the northern region of Brazil. Public or private hospitals that perform surgical procedures were used as inclusion criteria. The study identified that the Regional Hospital of Baixo Amazonas has the highest rates of nosocomial infections and that bloodstream infection was the most frequent in this unit. In addition, there was a notable correlation between the total number of surgeries performed in hospitals and the total number of deaths from nosocomial infections and between the total number of infections and the total number of deaths from infections.