AIM To report the epidemiology of nosocomial bloodstream infections in Auckland Healthcare Hospitals. METHODS From January 1995 to December 1997 every positive blood culture result was followed up by an infection control nurse who recorded relevant clinical, laboratory and treatment information on a data collection sheet. The clinical significance of each isolate was determined and the most l...

BACKGROUND Exploration of the impact of severe hypotension on the evolution of acute kidney injury in septic patients. METHODS AND RESULTS We reviewed the hemodynamic parameters of 137 adults with septic shock and proven blood stream infection in the ICU. Severe hypotension was defined as a mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) ≤65 mmHg. The influence of the duration of severe hypotension on the...

background and objectives: coagulase negative staphylococcus (cons) is frequently isolated from blood cultures but their significance is difficult to interpret. cons bacteria which are often previously dismissed as culture contaminants are attracting greater importance as true pathogens in the past decades. clinical evaluation of these isolates suggests that although there is a relative increas...