MATERIALS AND METHODS
All necessary ethical approvals for conducting the study have been
obtained. This is a retrospective study, conducted in a tertiary cardiac
hospital ICU’s with 30 beds. We evaluated patients who underwent adult
cardiovascular surgeries during the period from March 2010 to February
2012. Cases were defined as new acquisitions of MDR-AB from specimen
taken ≥48 hours following ICU admission, with clinical signs of
infection. Data on the characteristics, laboratory results, applied
treatments were collected from the electronic medical records and
patients’ charts. The Hospital’s Infection Committee managed antibiotic
treatment. Recorded data were as follows: age, gender, medical history,
SOFA score on the day of infection diagnosis, type of surgery,
postoperative days until infection, infection site, antibiotic
susceptibility, complications (such as organ dysfunction,
thrombocytopenia), days of mechanical ventilation after infection and
length of CS-ICU stay.