Anesth Analg 2005;101:1546-1553
© 2005 International Anesthesia Research Society
doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000180217.57952.FE
GENERAL ARTICLES
Supplemental Intravenous Crystalloid Administration Does Not Reduce the Risk of Surgical Wound Infection
Barbara Kabon, MD*¶,
Ozan Akça, MD ,
Akiko Taguchi, MD*,
Angelika Nagele, RN*,
Ratnaraj Jebadurai, MD*,
Cem F. Arkilic, MD*,
Neeru Sharma, MD*,
Arundhathi Ahluwalia, MD*,
Susan Galandiuk, MD||,
James Fleshman, MD ,
Daniel I. Sessler, MD , and
Andrea Kurz, MD #
Departments of *Anesthesiology and Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Outcomes Research Institute and Departments of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine and ||Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; ¶Department of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care, Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and #Department of Anesthesiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Andrea Kurz, Department of Anesthesiology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Address e-mail to andrea.kurz{at}insel.ch. On the worldwide web: www.or.org.
Wound perfusion and oxygenation are important determinants of the development of postoperative wound infections. Supplemental fluid administration significantly increases tissue oxygenation in surrogate wounds in the subcutaneous tissue of the upper arm in perioperative surgical patients. We tested the hypothesis that supplemental fluid administration during and after elective colon resections decreases the incidence of postoperative wound infections. Patients undergoing open colon resection were randomly assigned to small-volume (n = 124, 8 mL · kg1 · h1) or large-volume (n = 129, 1618 mL · kg1 · h1) fluid management. Our major outcomes were two distinct criteria for diagnosis of surgical wound infections: 1) purulent exudate combined with a culture positive for pathogenic bacteria, and 2) Center for Disease Control criteria for diagnosis of surgical wound infections. All wound infections diagnosed using either criterion by a blinded observer in the 15 days after surgery were considered in the analysis. Wound healing was evaluated with the ASEPSIS scoring system. Of the patients given small fluid administration, 14 had surgical wound infections; 11 given large fluid therapy had infections, P = 0.46. ASEPSIS wound-healing scores were similar in both groups: 7 ± 16 (small volume) versus 8 ± 14 (large volume), P = 0.70. Our results suggest that supplemental hydration in the range tested does not impact wound infection rate.
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