Open AccessTo study the role of various preventive measures in reducing the device associated infections in ICU
Author(s) -
Harjeet Singh Arora,
Ravi Paul Singh,
Rajan Kumar,
Kanwardeep Singh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of clinical anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-4781
pISSN - 2394-4994
DOI - 10.18231/j.ijca.2020.070
Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , infection control , anesthesiology , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , infection rate , intensive care , surgery , nursing , anesthesia
The ICU in a hospital has a vital role to play in delivering prompt, appropriate and adequate care to critically ill patients. Patients in ICU are at greatest risk of acquiring device associated hospital acquired infection (DA-HAI). Infection control practices are the need of hour to control these infections. Aim and objective of present study was to assess the role of preventive interventions in reducing the hospital acquired infection in ICU. The present study was conducted over a period of one year from November 2017 to August 2018 in the Department of Anesthesiology, Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar. The study was conducted into pre and post interventional period to assess the role of preventive interventions in reducing the device associated acquired infections and results were statistically analysed. During pre interventional study period 16/262 (6.1%) patients developed device associated infection and rate per 1000 device days was 6.25/1000. After interventions 3/132(2.27%) patients developed device associated infection and rate was significantly reduced to 2.92/1000. The implementation of various infection control measures to control DA-HAIs is found to be effective during study. Systematically collected data and findings of our study can be utilized in the ICU setting as a basic step toward a better infection control strategy for improving patient care practices.