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01-09-2020 | Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | Less is more in Intensive Care

Less contact isolation is more in the ICU: con

Authors: Gabriel Birgand, Jeroen Schouten, Etienne Ruppé

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2020

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Nearly half of all hospital-acquired infections (HAI) occur in intensive care units (ICU) [1]. Among HAIs, those caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) are associated with poor patient outcomes. The ICU setting involves multiple facilitators for the development of antimicrobial resistance: loss of physiological barriers, high transmission risk, and high ecological antibiotic pressure (an average of 70% of patients in ICU are prescribed antibiotics [2]). MDRO may be transmitted from patient-to-patient via staff hands, from the environment or event directly from person to person. Furthermore, ICU represents a hub in the hospital network and MDRO can spread from the ICU to other wards, other hospitals, or long-term care facilities, where patients are discharged [3]. …

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Title: Less contact isolation is more in the ICU: con
Authors: Gabriel Birgand
Jeroen Schouten
Etienne Ruppé
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05887-5

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