INTRODUCTION
Infection in the setting of cardiovascular surgery is not infrequent and
associated with adverse outcomes and mortality. Multidrug resistant
organism related infection cases have augmented in in this setting
lately whereas in the other type of ICU’s. Acinetobacter
baumannii (AB) is a gram-negative coccobasillus, which is a ubiquitous
microorganism having ability to colonize and survive in diverse
environments and improve diverse mechanisms of resistance, due to AB is
difficult to control in hospitals. [1-6]. Particularly
multidrug-resistant (MDR)-AB infections (isolate is non-susceptible to
at least one agent in three or more antibiotic classes) associated with
high mortality rates in intensive care units (ICUs) [3,6,7].
After an MDR-AB infection epidemic in our hospital at the end of 2009 we
aimed to search the rate of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter
baumannii infections in cardiovascular surgery intensive care unit
(CS-ICU) and risk factors and independent outcome predictors
retrospectively for 2 year time period.