A Socio-demographic and Clinical Study on Surgical Cases in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital, Suraram, Hyderabad

Abstract

A descriptive study on surgical case profile related to socio demographic and clinical aspects was conductedin a tertiary care teaching hospital Hyderabad, Telangana. This was a retrospective and record based study. Atotal of 885 case sheets were collected from Medical record department among which 488 were males and 397were females. In-patient surgical case sheets were collected from 1st July 2021 to 30th June 2022 for a period ofone year after obtaining permission from the Institutional Ethics Committee. Absolute professional secrecy wasmaintained. All inpatient case sheets from department of Surgery were collected from the medical records andconsidered for this study. The study results were evaluated and analyzed by SPSS software.We found that highest number of patients admitted was in the age group of 31 to 50 years. Co- morbid conditionslike hypertension and diabetes (23.9%) was associated with surgical conditions. Majority of patients were fromurban locality (62.7%). Pain abdomen (36.3%) followed by swelling both inflammatory and tumor (35.5%) werethe common clinical presentations at the time of admission. Highest cases of surgical conditions in our study wereinflammatory swellings (17.9%), followed by benign tumors (17%), hernias(12.4%), appendicitis 9.2%, cholecystitisand cholelithiasis (9%), acid peptic diseases (7.2%) and renal calculi contributing 6.3%. Of the malignant conditions(3.16%) noticed, carcinoma of breast was common in females and oral cancers were commonest in males. Inguinalhernias were common in males and incisional hernias were common in females. Highest number of cholecystitisand cholelithiasis were observed in female population. Mean hospital stay was 6 days in our study. Most of thecases were reported in rainy season and treated conservatively (50.7%), very least genetic predisposition (0.4%)was observed in the study population. Study results were similar when compared with other studies conductedin India and abroad.