Nosocomial infections

Question 1

Most at risk

Answer 1

• people with comorbid conditions:
  immunosupression
  diabetes
  renal insufficiency
  chronic lung disease
  malnutrition
• longer hospitalization
• increasing age
• more invasive procedures
• excessive or imporper use of broad spectrum antibiotics

Question 2

some hospital aquired infections include

Answer 2

sepsis, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, surgical wound infections, nosocomial diarrhoea

Question 3

organisms that lead to sepsis in most cases

Answer 3

coagulase negative staphylococci, fungi eg candida albicans

Question 4

organisms that lead to pneumonia

Answer 4

staphylococcus aureus, e.coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, enterobacter species, klebsiella pneumoniae

Question 5

organisms that lead to surgical wound infections

Answer 5

enterococcus species, e.coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, enterobacter species, and other gram negative bacteria

Question 6

organism that causes nosocomial diarrhoae

Answer 6

clostridium difficile

Question 7

organism that causes urinary tract infections

Answer 7

candida albicans and some gram negative bacteria