Table 5. Paediatric cardiac surgical site infection rates by year and infection type, 2019–2023.

Year	Superficial incisional SSI cases		Organ/space SSI cases		Deep incisional SSI cases		All casesa
	n	%	n	%	n	%
2019	19	54.3%	14	40.0%	2	5.7%	35
2020	29	78.4%	6	16.2%	2	5.4%	37
2021	23	65.7%	9	25.7%	3	8.6%	35
2022	16	64.0%	6	24.0%	3	12.0%	25
2023	32	61.5%	12	23.1%	8	15.4%	52
Overall	119	64.7%	47	25.5%	18	9.8%	184

Abbreviation: SSI, surgical site infection

^a Excludes cases with missing infection type information