Surgical site infection is considered a very common hospital infection today, occurring after a patient undergoes surgery to treat a disease. Surgical site infection causes adverse effects on the patient's health as well as prolongs the treatment time. Therefore, the use of antibiotics to prevent surgical site infection is extremely necessary to prevent this condition from occurring.

Surgical site infection is one of the common hospital infections. According to research in developed countries, about 5% of surgical patients suffer from surgical site infection. In Vietnam, the rate of surgical site infection is higher, up to 10.5%. Preventing surgical site infection is extremely important and necessary.

Every year, the number of patients with superficial and deep surgical site infections is estimated at about 2 million people. This is the most common type of infection, with the largest number of hospital-acquired infections, and the treatment of superficial and deep surgical site infections also has different points.

Among hospital infections, surgical site infections are among the most common. In our country, about 10% of millions of surgeries have surgical site infections.

Surgical site infection is a very common type of infection, occurring in large numbers and often recorded in hospital infections. In Vietnam, surgical site infection accounts for 5-10% of over 2 million people undergoing surgery each year.