Intensive Care Unit, Pneumonia
Conditions
Keywords
pneumonia, ICU, isolation room, clinical epidemiology, infection control
Brief summary
This study will carry out in the ICU. Objectives of the study are to determine the frequency of HAP and the effect of isolated rooms on the frequency of pneumonia in the ICU.
Detailed description
In the present study, it was aimed to determine the incidence, causative agents, antimicrobial resistance, and risk factors for lower respiratory tract infections in patients followed in the ICU for the last 4 years. The effect of reconfiguration from a ward-type ICU consisting one large room to an ICU with isolated rooms with two beds on the incidence of HAP was also determined.
Interventions
frequency of hospital acquired pneumonia in the ICU
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* adult patients, * admitted to the ICU
Exclusion criteria
* trauma, surgery or burned patients * patients under 18
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)