Identificación de factores determinantes en el uso de antibióticos en una unidad de cuidados intensivos pediátricos

  1. DÍAZ RUIZ, LAURA
unter der Leitung von:
  1. J. Ignacio Sánchez Díaz Doktorvater

Universität der Verteidigung: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 20 von Juli von 2022

Gericht:
  1. Jesús Ruiz Contreras Präsident
  2. Mercedes Catalán González Sekretär/in
  3. Layla Diab Cáceres Vocal
  4. Amalia Martinez Anton Vocal
  5. M.V. Ramos Casado Vocal

Art: Dissertation

Zusammenfassung

Antibiotics are among the most used drugs in the intensive care units, estimating its overuse up to 33% of cases. To improve the antibiotic management is essential to understand the factors involved in the initiation of these treatments and their maintenance when there is no evidence of infection; as well as to have objective tools to guide antimicrobial use.The primary objective of this study is to determine factors involved in the initiation of the antibiotic treatment and its prolongation in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary hospital. The secondary objectives are: to determine predictor variables of bacterial and nosocomial infection, to describe the infectious pathology, to investigate the accuracy of infection biomarkers for the diagnosis of bacterial infection and sepsis, and to calculate the optimal cut-point to predict infection...