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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profile of Bacterial Isolates Among Patients Admitted to the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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objectivesPatients admitted to the neurosurgery intensive care unit (ICU) are often exposed to mechanical ventilation, invasive procedures, and polypharmacy. Prolonged hospital stays and multiple antibiotics facilitate the development of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). We planned this study to determine the bacteriological profile and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) patterns among neurosurgery ICU patients.
methodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2024 to April 2025 at the Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in Bhubaneswar, India. This study included adult patients hospitalized in the neurosurgery ICU within the above-mentioned time frame. Specimens like endotracheal tube (ETT) aspirate, blood, urine, and body fluids were collected from the eligible participants and were assessed for the bacteriological profile. Culture media like MacConkey agar, chocolate agar, 5% sheep blood agar, and cysteine lactose electrolyte-deficient (CLED) agar were employed for the growth of pathogenic bacteria. For AST, we used the VITEK 2 system (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Étoile, France). We used the R software Version 4.4.3 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria) for analysis.
resultsFour hundred twenty-five patients were eligible for the study. The male-to-female ratio was 3:2. The average age of the participants was 58.9 (51.7-72.3) years. The majority of samples were obtained from ETT (308, 72%), followed by blood (79, 19%) and others like urine, pus, etc. (38, 9%), respectively. Most of the pathogens belonged to
conclusionETT was the most common sample collected, and most pathogens were from
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