PMID: 8584190Jun 1, 1995Paper

Methicillin-resistant staphylococci in pediatric resuscitation

Minerva anestesiologica
A PignaA S Corticelli

Abstract

To evaluate the incidence of colonization and infection by methicillin-resistant in PICU. Prospective cohort study during 2 years for the surveillance of nosocomial infections. Four beds Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. We studied two-hundred patients with duration of hospitalization longer than 24 hours out of the 255 patients who were hospitalized during the same period. The patients were divided in two groups according to the presence or the absence of MRS. The difference of the two populations were compared using the t-test and the CATANOVA: Wilcoxon's test was used to analyze the relation between the two values. The results were significant when p = 0.05 and Ct = 3.81. Fourty patients (20%) were colonized or infected by MRS with two seasonal peaks which were not correlated with the amount of index work. Nine patients were already colonized at entrance in PICU (4.5%) and the rate of infected patients versus infections was 1.5% (3 patients with 3 clinical manifestations). The presence of MRS in the different sections of the hospital could be shown. The rate of PICU-acquired colonization was 12.5% (25), the rate of PICU-acquired infected patients was only 2% (4), the infections rate was 3.5% (7 events). The average time which o...Continue Reading

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