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Healthcare-Associated Infections in Deceased Stroke Patients in a Romanian Neurological ICU: A Retrospective Descriptive Study.
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- Hospital-Course Infectious Complications Associated with In-Hospital Mortality in a Neurological Intensive Care Cohort: A Six-Year Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are clinically relevant complications in critically ill stroke patients, particularly in neurological intensive care settings, where severe neurological injury, dysphagia, immobilization, invasive device exposure, and prolonged hospitalization increase infection susceptibility. Romanian data focused on deceased stroke patients admitted to neurological intensive care units remain limited. This retrospective descriptive single-center hospital-based study, supported by focused literature contextualization, was conducted in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit of the Brașov County Emergency Clinical Hospital, Romania. Adult stroke patients who died during hospitalization over a six-year observation period were included. Clinical data were extracted from a working hospital database and analyzed descriptively after data cleaning and harmonization. The final cohort comprised 190 deceased stroke patients; ischemic stroke was documented in 69.5% and hemorrhagic stroke in 28.9%. Hypertension (73.7%) and ischemic heart disease and/or previous myocardial infarction (60.0%) were the most frequently recorded comorbidities. Pneumonia was the dominant documented infectious complication, recorded in 52.6% of patients, followed by urinary tract infection (11.6%), pressure sore-related infection (4.7%), and sepsis-related coding (6.8%). The median in-hospital survival interval was 6 days (IQR 3.0-10.75). Because year-by-year stratification was not sufficiently robust, the temporal component was interpreted only in aggregate form. These findings provide a descriptive hospital-based profile of documented infectious complications in a fatal stroke ICU cohort and support the need for more standardized infection documentation and better linkage between clinical and microbiological data in neurocritical care settings.
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