Investigating the common perioperative surgical complications of caesarean section at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

Muhota, Mario; Chirambo, Levi; Ramarikhoane, Majobela; Dzombe, Aaron

Investigating the common perioperative surgical complications of caesarean section at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital

Date

2021-10-28

Authors

Muhota, Mario

Chirambo, Levi

Ramarikhoane, Majobela

Dzombe, Aaron

Publisher

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

Abstract

A retrospective study will be done at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital focusing on common perioperative surgical complications of Caesarean Section at QECH. While many studies have been done in Malawi, none focused on common perioperative complications of Caesarean section at central hospitals including QECH. This study aims to find out the common perioperative surgical complications and their associated factors. QECH being referral hospital receives a large number of patients across health facilities under Blantyre District Hospital and District Hospitals under South West zone. The findings from this study would help formulate maternal and neonatal health policies like improving Safe Motherhood program and implement actions that would improve the outcome of caesarean. The broad objective for this study is to investigate the perioperative caesarean section complications and their associated maternal and perinatal outcomes for women that had caesarean sections at QECH in the first quarter of 2021.The specific objectives are to estimate the Proportion of Caesarean Section complications at QECH, to describe the perinatal outcomes in patients that had perioperative caesarean section complications and to determine the factors associated with perioperative Caesarean Section complications in women operated at QECH. The target population will be all patients who underwent Caesarean Section at QECH from 1st January to 31stMarch 2021. The sample size for this study shall be 385 patients files selected. Data collection will be obtained using simple random sampling. We are expected to find common perioperative surgical complications of cesarean section such as hemorrhage, visceral injury, and extension of the uterine incision during extraction, wound infection and thromboembolism and factors associated with the common perioperative surgical complication. 28-Oct-20216 | P a g e The results will be presented at research dissemination conference at the department and later submitted to COMREC and COM library. Finally, the findings will be submitted to journals for publication.