Infecciones de heridas quirúrgicas encirugías de urgencia en un hospitalpediátrico de referencia en Uruguay.Período enero-julio 2016

) and 9 patients had fever. The most common infection was appendectomy (43 cases). All patients with surgical infections received antibiotic therapy after surgery. Conclusion: eventhough this paper has some methodological constraints, the infection rate was high in this Hospital during the period January-July 2016. Factors such as the surgery time, duration and type were key to this result. It is essential to reinforce the national epidemiological surveillance of these infections for emergency surgeries as well as for sch-eduled ones, in order to devise better strategies to be able to control this problem.