Objective<\/strong>: In this study, we aimed to investigate the link between healthcare-associated infections and mortality in critically ill patients who stayed in a third level intensive care unit (ICU) more than 90 days.<\/p>\n Methods<\/strong>: Records of patients who were over 18 years old and stayed in ICU more than 90 days between January 2010 and August 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.<\/p>\n Results<\/strong>: 60 out of 65 patients that met the specified criteria were included in the study. The mean age was 64.5 (range 14-95) years and the mean length of hospitalization was 129 (range 90-235) days. Half of the patients were women. The most common diagnosis at admission was cerebrovascular disease (41.2%) and pneumonia (15%). No infections were observed in 25% of the patients. There were totally 87 infections detected in 45 patients who had infection. Of these, 48% had bloodstream infections, while 33% of them had ventilator-associated pneumonia, and 10% had urinary tract infection. There was no significant difference between patients with (64.4%) and without (53.3%) infections in terms of mortality. Length of stay in patients with multiple episodes of infection was significantly higher than patients with no infection and with one episode of infection.<\/p>\n Conclusions<\/strong>: We have found that prolonged length of stay in ICU is an important result of healthcare-associated infections. Precautions should be taken for common infections and compliance levels with control precautions should be increased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the link between healthcare-associated infections and mortality in critically ill patients who stayed in a third level intensive care unit (ICU) more than 90 days. Methods: Records of patients who were over 18 years old and stayed in ICU more than 90 days between January 2010 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3903,4548,4544,3401,4546],"class_list":["post-15264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-acinetobacter-baumannii","tag-gramnegative-bacterial-infections","tag-healthcareassociated-infections","tag-intensive-care-units","tag-length-of-stay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}