How to Cite: Ray, S., Kumar, A., Kundu, S., & Gupta, U. K. (2022). Surgical site infection in emergency and elective patients and it’s major risk factor in resource limited tertiary care center: A multicentric study. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S5), 12262–12269. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS5.11993 International Journal of Health Sciences ISSN 2550-6978 E-ISSN 2550-696X © 2022. Manuscript submitted: 9 April 2022, Manuscript revised: 18 June 2022, Accepted for publication: 27 July 2022 12262 Surgical site infection in emergency and elective patients and it’s major risk factor in resource limited tertiary care center: A multicentric study Saugata Ray Department of General Surgery, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India Email: saugata073@gmail.com Anil Kumar Department of General Surgery, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India Email: dranilsjhdelhi@gmail.com Sharbori Kundu Department of General Surgery, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal, India Email: gunjakundu@gmail.com Umesh Kumar Gupta Department of Pediatric Surgery, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India Corresponding author email: dukg9999@gmail.com Abstract---Postoperative surgical site infection (SSI) is major threat for surgeons. In this study, we measure the incidence of SSI in emergency and elective surgical patients and evaluation of any significant relation to anemia, hypoalbuminemia, Diabetes mellites, alcohol and tobacco user. This study was a prospective comparative study of 200 patients, studied during a twelve-month duration who were admitted and operated in our departments. Data collected including demographic profile and presence of SSI up to 30 postoperative days. In this prospective study of 200 patients (100 patients in each emergency and elective surgical case) surgical site infection was present in 17% (n=34) of patients, out of 34 SSI patients 64.7% (22 Patients) were male and 35.3% (12 Patients) were female. SSI was present in 73.5% and 26.5% of emergency and elective surgical cases respectively. Emergency and elective surgical cases