Epidemiological assessment of risk factors of infectious complications at wounded and victims with severe injuries

Abstract

Necessary condition of prevention of development of infectious complications in wounded and victims with severe injuries is the knowledge of the medical and tactical concept of traumatic illness. Carrying out epidemiological surveillance in specialized surgical hospitals consist not only in obtaining the objective information about epidemic situation, epidemiological and clinical manifestations of infectious complications, but also in prospective supervision over the patients entering into group of high risk of emergence and development of the infections connected with delivery of health care. In this regard it is important to reveal epidemiological features and patterns of manifestations of the infections connected with delivery of health care to define tendencies of epidemic process, and also to predict influence of risk factors on development of infectious complications in the victims who are on treatment in specialized surgical hospital.

Keywords

• the infections connected with delivery of health care
• infectious complications
• severe injury
• specialized surgical hospital