In a surgical patient, the causes of non-surgical infection -a) Lower RTIb) Wound infectionc) Clostridium difficile diarrhoead) UTI

Postoperative patients are at increased risk for a variety of non-surgical postoperative nosocomial infections. These are: Urinary tract infection- (Most conunon) Lower respiratory tract infections-3rd most common (2nd MC cause being surgical site infection (SSI)) LRTI are the leading cause of death d/t nosocomial inf. Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, caused by clostridium difficile. Sinusitis Meningitis