Epidemiology and Determinants of Outcomes of Hospital Acquired Blood Stream Infections in the Intensive Care in Turkey

Launched by SCARE (STUDY GROUP FOR CARBAPENEM RESISTANCE) · Mar 10, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

Blood stream infection (BSI) is defined as the identification of a culprit pathogen in the blood culture sample of a participant. As such, and once contaminants are excluded, BSI is the only cause of sepsis where the presence of an infection and the pathogen are known with certainty. This makes BSI the perfect model of infection to study the effects of the micro-organism on the participant, and the effects of the antibiotics and other treatments on survival. There is an increasing trend in antimicrobial resistance rates among microorganisms that are associated with nosocomial infections tre...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Age \> 18 Years.
• • Hospital Acquired Bloodstream Infection (HA-BSI).
• • Treated in the ICU.
• • ICU acquired OR Hospital acquired prior to ICU admission
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients that had a positive blood culture in the hospital and transferred to ICU for a different reason than specific treatment of the causes or consequences of HA-BSI.
• • Previous inclusion in the study.
• • HA-BSI is defined as a positive blood culture (BC) sampled after 48 hours following hospital admission.