Infections related to health care in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Abstract
Introduction: Health care-related infections are considered a major global health problem and are those that appear after 48 hours of hospital stay. Patients who need intensive care will be the most vulnerable. Method: A retrospective longitudinal study of pediatric patients that were admitted by an infection related to health care or who developed an in-hospital infectious process in the pediatric intensive care unit was carried out, in the period of January 2011 to December 31, 2013. The universe was 945 patients and the sample was 70 children from babies to 17 years old, 11 months and 29 days. Results: In the analyzed series predominated the Group of age less than one year old with 37.1%; the 45.7% of them were infected within the pediatric intensive care unit; the 34.3% was admitted with respiratory diseases. To the 74.3% of the cases were performed deep venous approaches and this was the most frequent infection site with 31.4%; the secretion cultures reported 79 negative samples; within the germs predominated the Klebsiella Pneumoniae in 12.6%; the most commonly used antibiotic was ciprofloxacin in 51.4% and the rate of nosocomial infection was 7.4%. Conclusions: Healthcare-associated infections represent a problem for attention to the severe pediatric services, mainly related to the microbiological characteristics of the environment that surrounds the patient and invasive procedures to which are subjected by its clinical statusDownloads
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