Incidence of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections In A Tertiary Care Hospital

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contents <div> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt;"> <p><span lang="EN-IN">Central Venous Catheters (CVCs) are indispensable in current intensive care treatment; also pose a greater risk of device related infections in comparison to any other type of medical device and are major cause of morbidity, mortality and increased expense. A cross sectional prospective study of one year duration was conducted in the tertiary care hospital ICUs , to determine the incidence of the central line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and to identify the associated risk factors. Two hundred and eleven patients admitted to various ICUs with an indwelling central venous catheter (CVC) for more than 48 h were monitored. The incidence rate of CLABSI in our study is 9.48% and 13.5 per 1000 central line days. <em>Klebsiella spp.</em>(35%) are the most commonly isolated micro-organism and other organisms isolated are </span><em><span lang="EN-IN">Acinetobacter baumannii </span></em><span lang="EN-IN">(15%),<em> Pseudomonas aeruginosa </em>(10%),<em> Escherichia coli</em>(10%),<em> Staphylococcus aureus</em>(10%),<em> Candida tropicalis</em>(15%)<em> and Candida krusei </em>(5%).</span><span lang="EN-IN">The age group of patients were ranging from a minimum of 1 year to maximum of 77 years with a mean age of 33.52 ± 19.75 years from various speciality ICUs were included among which the highest number of samples were received from surgical ICU, that is 75 samples (35.55%) followed by bone marrow transplant unit and medical ICU. The most commonly used catheter was subclavian catheter (74.8%). </span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>
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<div> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt;"> <p><span lang="EN-IN">Central Venous Catheters (CVCs) are indispensable in current intensive care treatment; also pose a greater risk of device related infections in comparison to any other type of medical device and are major cause of morbidity, mortality and increased expense. A cross sectional prospective study of one year duration was conducted in the tertiary care hospital ICUs , to determine the incidence of the central line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and to identify the associated risk factors. Two hundred and eleven patients admitted to various ICUs with an indwelling central venous catheter (CVC) for more than 48 h were monitored. The incidence rate of CLABSI in our study is 9.48% and 13.5 per 1000 central line days. <em>Klebsiella spp.</em>(35%) are the most commonly isolated micro-organism and other organisms isolated are </span><em><span lang="EN-IN">Acinetobacter baumannii </span></em><span lang="EN-IN">(15%),<em> Pseudomonas aeruginosa </em>(10%),<em> Escherichia coli</em>(10%),<em> Staphylococcus aureus</em>(10%),<em> Candida tropicalis</em>(15%)<em> and Candida krusei </em>(5%).</span><span lang="EN-IN">The age group of patients were ranging from a minimum of 1 year to maximum of 77 years with a mean age of 33.52 ± 19.75 years from various speciality ICUs were included among which the highest number of samples were received from surgical ICU, that is 75 samples (35.55%) followed by bone marrow transplant unit and medical ICU. The most commonly used catheter was subclavian catheter (74.8%). </span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>
title Incidence of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections In A Tertiary Care Hospital
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16937564