Epidemiology of intra-abdominal infection and sepsis in critically ill patients: "AbSeS", a multinational observational cohort study and ESICM Trials Group Project.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe the epidemiology of intra-abdominal infection in an international cohort of ICU patients according to a new system that classifies cases according to setting of infection acquisition (community-acquired, early onset hospital-acquired, and late-onset hospital-acquired), anatomical disruption (absent or present with localized or diffuse peritonitis), and severity of disease expression (infection, sepsis, and septic shock).

Methods

We performed a multicenter (n = 309), observational, epidemiological study including adult ICU patients diagnosed with intra-abdominal infection. Risk factors for mortality were assessed by logistic regression analysis.

Results

The cohort included 2621 patients. Setting of infection acquisition was community-acquired in 31.

SUBMITTER: Blot S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863788 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature