Health care-associated infections in neonatology

Fecha de publicación: 01/01/2024 Fecha Ahead of Print: 01/01/2024

Autores de IIS La Fe

• María Cernada Badía

  Autor

Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

• Romerob, Concepcion De Alba
• Fernandez-Colomer, Belen
• Gonzalez-Pacheco, Noelia
• Lopez, Maria Gonzalez
• Couce, Maria Luz
• Soc Espanola Neonatologia

Grupos

• Perinatología

  

  Leader

  Máximo Vento Torres

Abstract

Health care-associated infections are common in neonatology, but there is no consensus on their definitions. This makes it difficult to compare their incidence or assess the effectiveness of prevention bundles. This is why we think it is very important to achieve a consensus on the definitions and diagnostic criteria for one of the most frequent causes of morbidity in hospitalised neonates. This document aims to standardise the definitions for the most frequent health care-associated infections, such as catheter-associated bloodstream infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia and surgical wound infection, as well as the approach to their diagnosis and treatment. (c) 2023 Asociacion Espanola de Pediatria. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/).

Keywords

• Nosocomial infection; Bacteraemia; Pneumonia; Surgical prophylaxis; Neonate