Intensive care unit infection.
Candida tropicalis in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Epidemiologic and Molecular Analysis of an Outbreak of Infection with an Uncommon Neonatal Pathogen
... Potential environmental reservoirs such as nearby surfaces and equipment, including benches, sinks, ventilators, cubicles, and intravenous fluid administra- tion pumps, were cultured by using premoistened cotton-tipped ...
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Incidences and influences of device-associated healthcare-associated infections in a pediatric intensive care unit in Japan: a retrospective surveillance study
... Our clinical practice was as follows. At the time of insertion of a central venous catheter (CVC), we cleaned the skin with povidone-iodine and cover the puncture site with a transparent dressing. A needleless closed ...
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Acinetobacterspp in Intensive Care Unit: Risk Factors Associated with Infection and Mortality
... Guidelines have been developed by ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) and CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) joint venture to determine the antibiotic resistance characteristics of ...
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The Incidence of Nosocomial Infection in the Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia: ICU acquired Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program 1998 1999
... The Incidence of Nosocomial Infection in the Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ICU acquired Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program 1998 1999 The Incidence of Nosocomial I[.] ...
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Delirium in the intensive care unit
... In the only study to date to examine whether there is a genetic predisposition to ICU delirium in some patients, Ely and coworkers [38] evaluated the association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and duration of ...
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Nosocomial bacterial infections and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns among patients in Ugandan intensive care units: a cross sectional study
... acquired infection; NI: nosocomial infection; ICU: intensive care unit; USA: United States of America; MRSA: methicillin resistant Staphylococ- cus aureus; MDR: multidrug resistant; ...
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BACTERIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
... acquired infection and death among patients admitted in ...the intensive care unit of Kamineni ...of infection by an antibiotic-resistant strain can be predicted based on the patient ...
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A Study on Nosocomial Infection in Intensive Medical Care Unit-incidence, pattern and etiology
... Resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics emerged subsequently which resulted in severe infections and sepsis by S.Aureus.Air borne,dust borne mode of spread of infection were studied.Spread of ...
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Acquired bloodstream infection in the intensive care unit: incidence and attributable mortality
... On the other hand, our study also has some weak- nesses. Its findings may not be directly generalizable to differing microbiological environments worldwide. How- ever, its results are comparable with those in similar ...
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A prospective survey of Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization and infection in the intensive care unit
... A third of our patients were carriers of PA on admission to the ICU (26% rectal, 16% EA and 8% pharyngeal car- riage). Bonten et al. reported similar figures (34%) along with striking similarities regarding the relative ...
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Failure of the Overgown to Prevent Nosocomial Infection in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... Failure of the Overgown to Prevent Nosocomial Infection in a Pediatric Intensive Care. Services[r] ...
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Prevention of central venous catheter related infection in the intensive care unit
... bloodstream infection (RR: ...bloodstream infection (RR: ...bloodstream infection (RR: ...bloodstream infection (RR: ...bloodstream infection prevention (RR: ...
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Infection with Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit in the Western part of Romania
... endemic infection hotbeds especially in the Intensive Care ...baumannii infection in patients admitted in the ICU which needed mechanical ventilation; the analysis of these cases regarding ...
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Rate, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Nosocomial Primary Bloodstream Infection in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients
... bloodstream infection in 57 patients; 5 were polymicrobial and 7 pa- tients had multiple bloodstream ...stream infection (n ⴝ 28), followed by Enterobacter cloacae (n ⴝ ...bloodstream infection was ...
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Peripheral venous catheter related blood stream infection in intensive care unit
... our study were catheterization under emergency condition and multiple attempts for catheter insertion. It was observed that the incidence of PVC-BSI was higher in cases, who had been catheterized under emergency ...
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Comparative analysis of serum antibody responses to Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A by cystic fibrosis and intensive care unit patients
... Comparative Analysis of Serum Antibody Responses to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exotoxin A by Cystic Fibrosis and Intensive Care Unit Patients.. Pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginos[r] ...
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NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION WITH ECHO VIRUS TYPE 31 IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
... 1,480-gm Negro male in no distress. The heart rate was 130/ minute, and respirations were 40/minute. Physical findings were unremarkable. At that time a chest film was clear, and a spina[r] ...
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Clinical and microbiological profile of nosocomial infection in intramural neonatal intensive care unit
... significant problem in the delivery of intensive care services. The incidence of Hospital acquired infections varies in different NICUs. Maximum patients developed HAI on 5 to 7 day of admission (39.2%) and ...
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Remifentanil discontinuation and subsequent intensive care unit acquired infection: a cohort study
... altered natural-killer cell activity. These immunomodulatory effects were most evident 12 hours following morphine with- drawal. In addition, clonidine prevented withdrawal-induced immunosuppression. Other recent animal ...
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Effects of Carbapenem consumption on the prevalence of Acinetobacter infection in intensive care unit patients
... In order to develop a common language for the resist- ance problem, bacteria resistant to ≥3 antibiotics are called multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria, and those resistant to all antibiotics are called pan-resistant ...
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