10 años de infecciones nosocomiales en el Hospital Santo Tomás / 10 years of nosocomial infections at the Santo Tomás Hospital
Rev. méd. Panamá
;
18(1): 16-27, Jan. 1993.
Article
in Spanish
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| ID: lil-410027
ABSTRACT
The incidence of nosocomial urinary tract infections (UTI) in the medical services of Santo Tomás Hospital from 1980 to 1985 was 56% in Neurology Section, 73% in cardiology and 74% in nephrology. These percentages declined, with epidemiological surveillance, to 21%, 31% and 53% respectively, for the period between 1986 and 1990. In the surgical services the incidence of nosocomial UTI was 85% in urology and 15% in general surgery, from 1980 to 1985. The incidence remained unchanged in urology (81%) and general surgery (17%) despite epidemiological surveillance, but decreased in neurosurgery (from 55% to 37%) for the period between 1986 and 1990. Between 1985 and 1990, Staphyloccocus aureus was the most frequently isolated bacterium from surgical wounds (34%) and from patients with intravenous catheters (23%). Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the most frequently isolated bacterium in nosocomial UTI (26%) and respiratory tract infections (45%) and in patients with nosocomial septicemia, it was a species of Klebsiella
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Cross Infection
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Central America
/
Panama
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. méd. Panamá
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
1993
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Panama
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Santo Tomás/PA
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