Intensive care units surveillance

Compared to most hospitalized patients, rates of nosocomial pneumonia are 10- to 20-fold higher in intensive care unit patients, and 7- to 21-fold higher in the intubated patients (4-6). Therefore, intubated patients in intensive care should be a major focus of surveillance for nosocomial pneumonia. Unit-... [Pg.39]

Itokazu GS, Quinn JP, Bell-Dixon C, Kahan FM, Weinstein RA. Antimicrobial resistance rates among aerobic gram-negative recovered from patients in intensive care units evaluation of a national postmarketing surveillance program. Clin Infect Dis 1996 23 779-784. [Pg.117]

Hemming VG, Overall JC, Britt MR. Nosocomial infections in a newborn intensive-care unit results of forty-one months of surveillance. N Engl J Med 1976 294 1310-1316. [Pg.233]

Surveillance of O, R, ETr, G, U, W twice weekly and 3 days after discharge from intensive care unit... [Pg.305]

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