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Nosocomial infections in the intensive care units

Author(s) -

Biljana Jovanović,

Nataša Mazić,

Vesna Mioljević,

Jelena Obrenović,

Snežana Jovanović

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

vojnosanitetski pregled

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2406-0720

pISSN - 0042-8450

DOI - 10.2298/vsp0602132j

Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , intensive care , sepsis , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , optics , biology

The risk for nosocomial infections (NIs) is 5-10 times higher in patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) than in patients staying in other wards. The higher incidence rates of NIs in the ICUs may be explained by the fact that the patients in the ICUs have more severe underlying disease, and are exposed to the invasive diagnostic and therapeutical procedures. The unreasonable use of antibiotics leads to the selection of multiresistant agents, which have been increasingly recorded as the NIs causative agents. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of NIs in the ICUs in the period January-June 2005.

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