TITLE:
Monitoring of Respiratory Infections in the Intensive Area of Respiratory System Disease
AUTHORS:
Filippo Ricciardiello, Maria Cardone, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Massimo Mesolella, Flavia Oliva, Annalisa Pianese, Carlo Antonio Leone
KEYWORDS:
Intensive Respiratory Area, Multi-Resistant Pathogens, Nosocomial Infections, Pneumonias, Tracheostomy
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Microbiology,
Vol.4 No.9,
July
28,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Respiratory infections
are the most frequent nosocomial infections after those urinaries and surgicals.
We analysed respiratory infection incidences in patients treated with different
kinds of respiratory assistance (non-invasive ventilation and invasive
mechanical ventilation trough tracheostomy), studying 640 patients recovering
in the intensive area of respiratory disease from 2010 to 2013. We had 113
cases of respiratory infections: 42.5% in patients of non-invasive ventilation
group and 57.5% of patients treated with invasive ventilation with a
statistically significant difference between the two groups. The patients
treated with non-invasive ventilation showed a lower incidence of nosocomial
respiratory infections. Prevention guidelines are important to reduce
nosocomial infections frequency.