Catheter-associated blood stream infections in an intensive care unit of a University Hospital in Wroclaw – International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium’s findings

Urinary tract infections in intensive care unit patients — a single-centre, 3-year observational study according to the INICC project

“…Thanks to the formation of the team responsible for infection surveillance and participation in DA-HAI monitoring within the ICU-HELICS programme on the initiative of the National Working Group on Nosocomial Infections and National Institute of Public Health, we were able to observe the trend of CA-UTI occurrence in 2007/8 of 8.6−5.3/1000 catheter-days and 92% urinary catheter utilisation [25]. The findings of multiple-year monitoring of DA-HAIs, conducted by the same group in the INICC project, indicate that the surveillance of nosocomial infections and the implementation of preventive procedures can reduce the frequency of these infections, which was confirmed in our study focusing on bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [32]. Many-year monitoring of CA-UTIs in our material demonstrates their reduced rates of incidence from 2002−2010; however, an upward trend is presently observed [26,31].…”

The problem of hospital bloodstream infections in patients hospitalized in intensive care units

“…20 Ten podział w przypadku odcewnikowych zakażeń krwi nie znajduje zastosowania, bowiem BSI mające związek z centralną linią naczyniową są zawsze infekcjami pierwotnymi. 21…”