Post-operative sepsis

Inguinal hernia. A three-year review of two thousand cases

“…As with all surgery, infection is an ever-present danger, but when deep sutures of non-absorbable material are used infection is particularly unfortunate, being very liable to lead to a chronic sinus, often a considerable disability to the patient. An infection rate of 6 per cent may seem inordinately high to some surgeons, but Henderson (1961) in his studies of post-operative sepsis reported 312 cases of hernia repair of which 20 (6.4 per cent) became infected.…”