Nosocomial infection in trauma intensive care
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Nosocomial hepatitis A infection in a paediatric intensive care unit.
Seven members of staff in a paediatric intensive care unit and two of their relatives developed hepatitis A over a period of five days. A 13 year old boy who was incontinent of faeces prior to his death, was presumed to be the source of infection. Two hundred and sixty seven other members of staff underwent serological testing and were given prophylactic pooled gamma globulin. Twenty three per ...
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UNLABELLED Patients in intensive care units (ICU) are 3 to 4 times more prone to nosocomial infection (NI) than patients in general wards owing to the severity of their pathology and the frequent use of invasive procedures. The aim of this study was to establish the incidence of NI in an ICU and the associated risk factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS During 18 months, all patients with severity sco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Intensive Care Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1751-1437
DOI: 10.1177/1751143715579076