Risk factors of nosocomial infection in patients in department of neurosurgery

Abstract

Objective To analyze the risk factors of nosocomial infection in Department of Neurosurgery and to provide evidence for the prevention and treatment of infection. Methods A total of 931 patients with neurosurgery operation in our hospital from January 2012-January 2016 were collected medical history data immediately after admission, including age, gender, underlying diseases, and primary diseases. Surgical records include preoperative white blood cell count, blood glucose level before operation, duration of operation, and reoperation. Hospitalization records include hospitalization time, without the use of corticosteroids, with or without the use of proton there is no pump inhibitor, and tracheal intubation / incision. Patients were divided into infection group and non infection group according to whether the hospital infection occurred during hospitalization. The difference of two groups of clinical data with statistically significant variables was Logistic multivariate regression analysis. Results There were 112 patients with nosocomial infection, the infection rate was 12.03%, and the infection occurred in the postoperative 3-25 d. The main infection site was postoperative wound, accounting for 35.7%; respiratory tract, accounting for 34.8%. There were 64 strains of pathogenic bacteria, 81 strains of Gram-negative bacteria, accounting for 64.1%, 21 strains of gram positive bacteria, accounting for 32.8%, 2 strains of fungi, accounting for 3.1%. There were significant difference between infection group and non infection group in ≥60 years, with basic diseases, reoperation, combined with other injuries, white blood cells, abnormal preoperative hyperglycemia, glucocorticoid use, proton pump inhibitors use, tracheotomy, hospitalization time, operation time (P<0.05). Further Logisitc regression analysis showed that age, reoperation, hospitalization time, preoperative high blood sugar and tracheotomy were the risk factors of nosocomial infection in Department of neurosurgery. Conclusions For the older, reoperation, longer hospitalization time, preoperative hyperglycemia and tracheotomy patients can take specific measures to improve the immunity of the patients, the ra-tional use of antimicrobial drugs to avoid the occurrence of postoperative infection. Key words: Neurosurgical procedures; Cross infection; Risk factors