Abreu PD, Rodríguez HY, García SO, Lacerda GÁJ, Oria RN, Martín MJ

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: central venous catheters related-infections are responsible 10-15% of the paediatric intensive care unit acquired-infections.
Objective: to apply Maki´s semi-quantitative method as microbiological study to determinate central venous catheter related-infection into a paediatric intensive care unit.
Method: a descriptive and prospective trial at the Moron Hospital was carried out and it was included all patients admitted to the critical care unit with necessity of a central venous catheter, during the period of time from October 2014 to October 2015.
Results: it predominated babies under one years of age (43,01%) as well as female sex (58,62%). Femoral vein puncture was the most used insertion site in 79,31%. Maki test showed that central venous catheter related-bacteremia predominated in 43,10%. Klebsiella pneumoniae (40.0%) was the principal identified-bacteria.
Conclusions: central venous catheter related-infections are frequently identified in the intensive cares units. The difference between infection and colonization with bacteremia most of the time show difficulty to determinate it, being the cause of increasing on the hospital costs.