Sustentabilidad hospitalaria, calidad y seguridad del paciente en el Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile / Hospital sustainability, quality and patient safety in Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

The sustainability of the Universidad de Chile Clinical Hospital must be understood comprehensively; providing higher quality and safety for our patients, ensuring highest standards of medical care. The quality of care must be understood not only in complying with the minimum standards to accredit and grant GES benefits, establish agreements with health insurers and be financially competitive; It must be incorporated into its management the dimensions of quality - effectiveness, efficiency, accessibility, safety, equity and patient-centered care- minimizing the costs of non-quality work. Our Clinical Hospital, as our country's main training center in healthcare professions, must include training at the undergraduate students' curriculum in quality and patient safety issues. (AU)

Bacteriemia por Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus en un paciente inmunosuprimido / Bacteraemia due to Campylobacter fetus in an immune suppressed patient

We report a case of bacteraemia by Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus in a 77 year-old woman with immunosuppression secondary to steroid use. Diagnosis was suspected by finding Gram negative curved rods in blood cultures taken after 4 days of a febrile illness without local findings. Diarrhea was not present. There was no consumption of undercooked meat or non-pasteurized milk and no contact with pets. The patient was treated with sulbactam-cefoperazone due to the coexistence of urinary tract infection by multiresistant E. coli. The outcome was favorable and albeit susceptibility was not assessed, quinolone resistance was presumed because illness appeared during ciprofloxacin prophylaxis for urinary tract infection. In contrast to C. jejuni infections, C. fetus infections are associated to debilitated or immunosuppressed patients, bacteraemia is predominant, diarrhea is rarely observed and disease is not self-limited.

Comunicamos un caso de bacteriemia por Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus en una paciente inmunosuprimida de 77 años, usuaria de corticoesteroides. La sospecha fue planteada por el hallazgo de bacilos gramnegativos curvos en los hemocultivos tomados al cuarto día de evolución de un cuadro febril sin diarrea. La paciente fue tratada con sulbactam/ cefoperazona debido a la coexistencia de una infección urinaria por Escherichia coli multiresistente. No hubo antecedentes de consumo de alimentos crudos o parcialmente cocidos en las semanas recientes y tampoco había contacto con mascotas. La evolución fue favorable. Aunque no se estudió la susceptibilidad del aislado, se presumió resistencia a quinolonas ya que el cuadro apareció durante el uso profiláctico de ciprofloxacina para infección urinaria. En contraste con C. jejuni, las infecciones por C. fetus se asocian a pacientes debilitados o inmunosuprimidos, se manifiestan predominantemente como bacteriemias sin diarrea y no tiene un perfil autolimitado.