Author(s)

Reem Dbas Alharbi¹, Amal Hussain Mohammed Ali¹, Ahmad Almatroudi¹, Shaimaa Mohamed²

¹Department of Medical Laboratories, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Qassim, KSA.
²Alrass General Hospital, Qassim Health Cluster, Saudi Ministry of Health, Qassim, KSA.

Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) reflect as a major global safety concern for both patients and health-care professionals. These infections could be in the form of cross-infection, endogenous infection and environmental Infection. Over 80% of these infections are related to devices’ utilization needed for patients’ life support. Methods show this is an observational and cross-sectional study, to identify the microorganism and determine the potential source of transmitting of hospital acquired infection by routine devices in adult ICU. The samples were collected using Amies transport media; three swabs were taken from the surfaces of indwelling urinary catheter, mechanical ventilation device and central venous catheter used from every twelve patients. The samples were cultured and analyzed by using microbiologic technique. Finally, all samples analyzed by MicroScan WalkAway 96 pulse. Results showing the most bacteria isolated are “Klebsiella pneumonia” (18.37%), “Acinetobacter baumannii” (11.48%), “Staphylococcus epidermidis” (4.59%), “Staphylococcus haemolyticus” (4.59%), “E. coli” (4.59%), “Serratia marcescens” (2.3%), “Pseudomonas luteola” (2.3%), “Kocurio kristinae” (2.3%) and “Photorhabdus luminscens” (2.3%). This study detects a high contamination of routine devices and resistant organisms. In the end it is recommended that effective infection control practices and effective strategies to control antibiotic-resistant bacteria should be applied.

Health-Acquired Infection, ICU, Devices, Catheters, Mechanical Ventilator Device

Alharbi, R. , Ali, A. , Almatroudi, A. and Mohamed, S. (2020) The Potential Sources of Transmitting of Hospital Acquired Infection by Routine Devices in Adult ICU in Alrass General Hospital. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 8, 69-80. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2020.84006.