Epidemiology of Postoperative Endophthalmitis (POE) in a Specialized Eye Hospital
Received Date: Sep 19, 2013 / Accepted Date: Jan 25, 2014 / Published Date: Jan 27, 2014
Abstract
Endophthalmitis is a rare but devastating complication of ocular surgery. The objectives of this 7 years prospective study on health care associated infection surveillance data are to determine the incidence rate of Postoperative Endophthalmitis (POE) following ocular surgery, to describe the characteristics of the patients and to report the isolated etiologic organisms. The overall incidence rate is 0.18% and varied between different ocular surgeries from 0.101% to 0.275%. The most commonly isolated organism is streptococcus Spp. Most of the patients have concurrent morbidity.
Keywords: Epidemiology; Endophthalmitis; Surveillance; Incidence rate; Ophthalmology; Eye hospital
Citation: Alshihry AM (2014) Epidemiology of Postoperative Endophthalmitis (POE) in a Specialized Eye Hospital. Epidemiol 4:145. Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000145
Copyright: © 2014 Alshihry AM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Share This Article
Recommended Journals
Open Access Journals
Article Tools
Article Usage
- Total views: 15838
- [From(publication date): 2-2014 - Nov 13, 2024]
- Breakdown by view type
- HTML page views: 11308
- PDF downloads: 4530
