TY - JOUR
T1 - Manual resuscitators in successive use in the same patient
T2 - reservoir of multi- and extensively resistant bacteria
AU - Pinheiro Lima Aires Gomes, G.
AU - Custódia Silva e Souza, A.
AU - Netto de Oliveira Leão-Vasconcelos, L. S.
AU - de Melo Costa, D.
AU - Bisinoto Alves, S.
AU - Carneiro Cunha Neves, H.
AU - Severino Pereira, M.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - To determine the bacterial load on manual resuscitators (MRs), swab samples of MR connectors from a Brazilian intensive care unit were collected at time zero, and after 24 and 48 h use in the same patient. From 20 MRs, a total of 54 bacteria were isolated: six at t = 0, 17 at t = 24, and 31 at t = 48. Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, Serratia marcescens, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were the predominant isolates, and multidrug resistance was widespread in all species. Greater awareness of the need to ensure effective decontamination of MRs between patients, as well as more frequent replacement of MRs in individual patients, is recommended to minimize the risk of (re)colonization/infection of the respiratory tract.
AB - To determine the bacterial load on manual resuscitators (MRs), swab samples of MR connectors from a Brazilian intensive care unit were collected at time zero, and after 24 and 48 h use in the same patient. From 20 MRs, a total of 54 bacteria were isolated: six at t = 0, 17 at t = 24, and 31 at t = 48. Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, Serratia marcescens, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were the predominant isolates, and multidrug resistance was widespread in all species. Greater awareness of the need to ensure effective decontamination of MRs between patients, as well as more frequent replacement of MRs in individual patients, is recommended to minimize the risk of (re)colonization/infection of the respiratory tract.
KW - equipment contamination
KW - multidrug resistance
KW - intensive care units
KW - hospital infection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85008385122&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.10.028
DO - 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.10.028
M3 - Article
C2 - 28012582
AN - SCOPUS:85008385122
VL - 95
SP - 87
EP - 90
JO - Journal of Hospital Infection
JF - Journal of Hospital Infection
SN - 0195-6701
IS - 1
ER -