BACKGROUND The relation between older age and nosocomial infection and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) is still a controversial issue. METHODS The authors prospectively studied 406 patients admitted to a surgical ICU, 106 of whom were more than 75 yr old. Information concerning ICU-acquired nosocomial infections, severity of illness, therapeutic activity, and hospital outcome was c...

Introduction: Nosocomial Infections (NI) are frequent and relevant problem and it is responsible for mortality especially in pediatric ICU and NICUs. Healthcare- associated infections are of important wide-ranging concern in the medical field. In the neonatal intensive care unit population the Nosocomial infection rate is highest in the lowest-birth-weight infants. It is this group of infants w...

Background & Aims of the Study: About a third of mortality in hospitals devoted to nosocomial infections. Nosocomial infection is an infection after the exposure of health- treatment services in unit's treatment. Lack of knowledge or ignorance of personnel to transmission methods and prevention of nosocomial infections are caused transmission of infectious diseases to staffs an...

OBJECTIVES The Critical Illness Stress-Induced Immune Suppression prevention trial was a randomized, masked trial of zinc, selenium, glutamine, and metoclopramide compared with whey protein in delaying nosocomial infection in PICU patients. One fourth of study subjects were diagnosed with nosocomial lower respiratory infection, which contributed to subjects receiving antibiotics 74% of all pati...

background the major challenge for a burn team is nosocomial infection, which is known to be responsible for over 50% of burn-related deaths. most studies on infection in burn patients focus on burn wound infection, whereas other nosocomial infections among these patients have not been addressed well. this study attempts to determine three types of nosocomial infections: burn wound, urinary tra...

A 31-year-old man with pneumonia and ampiema was treated with antibiotics and drainage. Hemophagocytic syndrome, characterized with pancytopenia was arised during this treatment. Nosocomial infection due to pancytopenia was treated with antibiotics. Hemophagocytic syndrome was recovered spontaneously after the treatment of this nosocomial infection. Such a severe hemophagocytic syndrome due to ...

Nosocomial infection is any contracted in a healthcare establishment by patient whose symptoms appear after 48 hours of hospitalization, 30 days for the operative site and one year case an intervention. surgical Their high frequency, cost severity make nosocomial infections major health problem. Its surveillance not end itself, it designed as means guiding prevention, from which must therefore ...

Nosocomial invasive aspergillosis can cause life-threatening infections among immunosuppressed patients and is thought to be primarily airborne. Despite the use of appropriate hospital air filtration systems, however, the incidence of this infection continues to increase. In this article, we present our hypothesis, which is that nosocomial aspergillosis can be airborne from a water source in th...

BACKGROUND Although several epidemiological surveys of Klebsiella clinical isolates have been performed, few studies have correlated the clinical isolate with disease. OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical and bacteriological characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia acquired as community or nosocomial infections. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 158 consecutively hospitalized patien...