Joint replacement is a reliable and effective surgery that allows profound pain relief restores joint function in patients. Despite the progress made experience gained replacement, surgical site infection one of leading postoperative complications. It can proceed as periprosthetic infection, osteomyelitis, sepsis lead to disabled or dead outcomes. Systematization risk factors for infectious com...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the incidence and epidemiology of nosocomial infection in newborns who were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in south Santa Catarina, Brazil. METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted for 1 year among 239 neonates who remained as in-patients 48 hours after admission. The criteria that were used to diagnose infectio...

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the major morbidities after radical resection for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (PHCC). This study aimed to clarify the risk factors and construct a nomogram to predict SSIs in patients with PHCC.A total of 335 consecutive patients who underwent hepatectomy combined with hepaticojejunostomy between January 2013 and December 2015 were analyzed retrospective...

Results. There were 6,218 patients and 513 SSI (8.25%). The infection rate was 2.27% for clean surgery, 9.17% for clean-contaminated surgery, 11.40% for contaminated surgery, and 19.14% for dirty surgery; 4% for ASA I, 8.23% for ASA II, 13.54% for ASA III, 19.55% for ASA IV, and 33.33% for ASA V; 6.97% for length of procedure = 75th percentile, and 23.01% for > 75th percentile; 3.95% for NNIS 0...

hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is a serious public health concern throughout the world. despite its public health prominence, however, how surveillance systems for hepatitis c should be designed is still a challenging issue especially in developing countries such as iran. establishing a surveillance system needs an ongoing process of case investigation, data collection, analysis of data and ...

OBJECTIVES To review the efficient and cost-effective preventive, control and surveillance measures that could be employed against nosocomial infections in developing countries. DATA SOURCES Literature search on compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM), Medline and Internet, using the key words: nosocomial infection, prevention and control, use of antibiotics and use of computers. Some articles...

OBJECTIVES to evaluate the Nosocomial Infection Control Programs in hospital institutions regarding structure and process indicators. METHOD this is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study conducted in 2013. The study population comprised 13 Nosocomial Infection Control Programs of health services in a Brazilian city of the state of São Paulo. Public domain instruments available in ...

INTRODUCTION Nosocomial infections (NI) are a major healthcare problem. National surveillance systems enable data to be compared and to implement new measures to improve our practice. METHODS A multicentre, prospective, descriptive and observational study was conducted using the data from surveillance system for nosocomial infections created in 2007 for Spanish pediatric intensive care units....

Nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, bloodstream infections (BSIs) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, affecting more than 200 000 patients per year in the United States (1). These infections are often associated with the use of catheters. Catheter-related infections make up about 14% of all hospital-acquired infections (2) and are responsible for more hospital days and death than a...