Abstract
To investigate the effects of environmental cleaning and the installation of heat and moisture exchangers (HMEs) to reduce neonatal carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) sepsis and colonization as well as antimicrobial use. We conducted a 7-year, quasi-experimental study. All neonates admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). We compared the trends for CRAB sepsis and colonization before (period 1, 2011-2013) and after (period 3, 2015-2017) a 12-month intervention period in 2014 (period 2) to incorporate a combination of HME use and sodium hypochlorite cleaning (5,000 ppm in the NICU and 500 ppm in the neonatal environment) using interrupted time series analysis with segmented regression. During the 7-year study period, 3,367 neonates were admitted to the NICU; the prevalence rates of CRAB sepsis and endotracheal CRAB colonization were 0.5 per 1,000 patient days, and 19.4 per 1,000 ventilator days. A comparison of period 1 to period 3 showed significant decreases in the percentages of both CRAB of A. baumannii sepsis (100% versus 11%) and endotracheal colonization (76% vs 52%) following the introduction of disposable HMEs and sodium hypochlorite cleaning (both P < .001). In period 3, compared with period ...Continue Reading
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