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  • Title: [Urinary infections with hospital germs in general surgery].
    Author: Vasile I, Mogoş D, Păun I, Păun M, Florescu M.
    Journal: Chirurgia (Bucur); 1998; 93(5):317-21. PubMed ID: 9854869.
    Abstract:
    Nosocomial urinary tract infection is the most common type of sepsis in the post-surgical patient. This paper presents our experience with 218 nosocomial urinary infections (34.93% of our postoperative infections) which complicated the postoperative course of 1002 (21.75%) urethral catheterized patients out of a total of 5950 (3.6%) operated on and under study individuals. Thus we found that urethral catheterization is the most important risk factor for post-surgery urinary infections. Moreover, in our series the postoperative urinary tract sepsis bacteriology is dominated (> 95% of cases) by aerobic gram-negative bacilli that mainly reside in the bowel and also commonly colonize the perineum. Furthermore, we demonstrated that post-surgical urinary infections did not influence directly death rate but they had a significant bearing on care costs. Finally we consider the prevention of postoperative nosocomial urinary tract sepsis as an essential principle of this condition management.
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