Abstract
Nosocomial infections appear in patients treated in hospital, which are not the initial cause of admission. A retrospective study concerning nosocomial infections was conducted to provide data about the amount, frequency and types of nosocomial infections in the rehabilitation ward in the Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Clinic of Lublin. The study was conducted on a group of 49 patients that were admitted or transferred to the ward over a period of 20 months in the years 2018–2020. The patients and therefore the infections were divided by age, sex, time of hospitalization and the underlying disease. The study also provided data about the most frequent infection types in these patients, as well as the most commonly used drugs to treat those infections. The results showed that in fact all of the examined factors have an impact on the frequency of nosocomial infections appearance rates. Furthermore, results in the study showed that factors examined by the study also have an impact on what type of infection was present in these groups of patients.
Highlights
Nosocomial infections (NI) tend to appear in patients hospitalized in public hospitals, and are not the reason the patient was admitted in the first place [1]
During the 20-month-period in which the study was conducted at the Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Clinic, a total of 2474 patients were hospitalized
It can be concluded that nosocomial infections still occur in the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Clinic
Summary
Nosocomial infections (NI) tend to appear in patients hospitalized in public hospitals, and are not the reason the patient was admitted in the first place [1]. NI may appear during the patients stay in the hospital, or even after the patient have been released from the hospital [2]. Other classifications that define NI are: infections occurring 48 h after the beginning of hospitalization, 3 days after patients release or 1 month after surgery [1]. NI are caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses [2] They are caused by bacteria, existing in the hospital as well as in the natural microbiome of a human organism. These bacteria cause infections especially at the moment of decreased immunity in patients [2]. The most common infections are blood, urinary tract, areas of surgery or pneumonia [3]
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