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• 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.