[Prevalance of nosocomial infections in tetraplegic upper extremity surgery. Prospective study of twenty patients].
BACKGROUND
Many risk factors of nosocomial infection may be met with tetraplegic patients. The objective of this work was to study the prevalence of colonization by 3 multiresistants bacteria (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Klebsiella pneumoniae with widened spectrum beta lactamase or multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii) on this population.


METHODS
It was about a prospective study for which we included 20 consecutive patients coming from a rehabilitation of long stay center to have a surgical operation of palliative reanimation of the upper limb. For each patient, the first morning of his hospitalization, many sites cultures were carried out for bacteriological analysis whose results were returned in 48 h to the operator. No patient was excluded.


RESULTS
Five patients (25%) showed the presence of SARM. One patient (5%) showed the presence of Klebsiela pneumoniae. One of the patients carrying a SARM was also carrying Acinetobacter baumannii. Overall 6 patients were contaminated (30%) but no postoperative infection occurred, neither at the time of the hospitalization nor after the exit of the service.


CONCLUSIONS
The various risk factors of nosocomial infection appearance met in tetraplegic patient were analyzed. This study showed that the cares of tetraplegic patients limited to the maximum the risk of nosocomial infection appearance (no one in this series) in spite of an important contamination met in this type of population which presents long durations of hospitalization, main risk factor regularly met.
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Service de chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice, hôpital Saint-Louis, 1, avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75475 Paris, France. cedric.kron@waika9.com
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Felten
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Marie
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Cormerais
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Laffont
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Servant
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D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001132:Arm / Q000601:surgery; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000601:surgery*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*