Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) occur more commonly in burns patients than in other hospital patients and are an increasingly frequent cause of burn-related mortality. We examined the incidence, trends and risk factors for MDRO acquisition in a specialist burns service housed in an open general surgical ward, and general intensive care unit.

Methods

We performed a retrospective study of adult patients admitted with an acute burn injury to our specialist statewide tertiary burns service between July 2014 and October 2020. We linked patient demographics, injury, treatment, and outcome details from our prospective burns service registry to microbiology and antimicrobial prescribing data. The outcome of interest was first MDRO detection, stratified into the foll

SUBMITTER: Cleland H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9195457 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature