scholarly journals Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff byUreaplasma urealyticum:an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration?

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 233-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne E Embree ◽  
Michelle Alfa ◽  
Joy Lertzman ◽  
Gloria Gray ◽  
Carlos Fajardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Respiratory Tract ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Minimal Risk ◽  
Upper Respiratory Tract ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants ◽  
Respiratory Tract Colonization

Very low birth weight infants often have protracted respiratory tract colonization withUreaplasma urealyticum.To determine whether prolonged contact with very low birth weight infants resulted in higher rates of upper respiratory tract colonization with this organism for caregivers, throat swabs forU urealyticumculture were obtained from medical, nursing and other support staff working in the neonatal intensive care and level II nurseries at the Health Sciences Centre and the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Throat colonization byU urealyticumwas demonstrated in 7.3% (95%ci0 to 15.6%) of 41 nurses working in the intensive care nurseries but in none of the 48 nurses working in other locations or the 66 other individuals tested (P=0.02). However, throat colonization was not significantly higher among the neonatal intensive care nurses than among the women delivering at one of the study institutions. Close contact with very low birth weight infants appears to constitute a minimal risk for increased throat colonization withU urealyticumamong hospital staff members.

Device-associated pneumonia of very low birth weight infants in Polish Neonatal Intensive Care Units

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach ◽  
T. Allen Merritt ◽  
Maria Borszewska-Kornacka ◽  
Joanna Domańska ◽  
Ewa Gulczyńska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

Economic Evaluation of Neonatal Intensive Care of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

1983 ◽  
Vol 308 (22) ◽  
pp. 1330-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Boyle ◽  
George W. Torrance ◽  
John C. Sinclair ◽  
Sargent P. Horwood
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Bacteremia Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Relation to Admission Illness Severity, Resource Use, and Outcome

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Gray ◽  
Douglas K. Richardson ◽  
Marie C. McCormick ◽  
Donald A. Goldmann
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Cumulative Incidence ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Illness Severity ◽  
Incidence Density ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

Objective. To examine the impact of admission-day illness severity on nosocomial bacteremia risk after consideration of traditional risk determinants such as birth weight and length of stay. Methods. The hospital courses for 302 consecutive very low birth weight (less than 1500 g) infants admitted to two neonatal intensive care units were examined for the occurrence of nosocomial coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia. Using both cumulative incidence and incidence density as measures of bacteremia risk, we explored the relation between illness severity (as measured by the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology [SNAP]) and bacteremia both before and after birth weight adjustment. In addition, the effect of bacteremia on hospital resource use was estimated. Results. Coagulase-negative staphylococcus was the most common pathogen noted in blood cultures drawn at 48 hours after admission or later. It was isolated on at least one occasion in 53 patients (cumulative incidence of 17.5 first episodes per 100 patients). These episodes occurred during 7652 days at risk, giving an incidence density of 6.9 initial bacteremias per 1000 patient-days at risk. As expected, when compared with the nonbacteremic group, bacteremic patients were of lower birth weight (888 ± 231 vs 1127 ± 258 g; P < .01) and gestational age (26.4 ± 2.1 vs 28.9 ± 2.8 weeks; P < .01). In addition, these patients were more severely ill on admission (SNAP 17.3 ± 6.5 vs 12.2 ± 5.8; P < .01). Even after birth weight stratification, the risk of bacteremia by both measures increased with higher SNAP scores. For example, among infants with birth weights greater than 1 kg, 25% of the most severely ill patients (SNAP 20 and higher) experienced at least one bacteremic episode, whereas the rates seen in infants with intermediate (SNAP 10 to 19) and low illness severity (SNAP 0 to 9) were 8.6% and 3.0%, respectively (χ2 for trend = 7.25; P < .01). Multivariate linear regression showed that bacteremia was associated with a prolongation of neonatal intensive care unit stay of 14.0 ± 4.0 days (P < .01) and an increase in hospital charges of $25 090 ± 12 051 (P < .05), even after adjustment for birth weight and admission-day SNAP. Conclusions. Nosocomial coagulase-negative bacteremia is an important complication among very low birth weight infants. Assessment of illness severity with SNAP provides information regarding nosocomial infection risk beyond that available from birth weight alone.

Level and Volume of Neonatal Intensive Care and Mortality in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

2007 ◽  
Vol 356 (21) ◽  
pp. 2165-2175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciaran S. Phibbs ◽  
Laurence C. Baker ◽  
Aaron B. Caughey ◽  
Beate Danielsen ◽  
Susan K. Schmitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

Follow-up of NICU Graduates: Why, What, and by Whom

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 213-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie C. Mccormick ◽  
Jane E. Stewart ◽  
Robyn Cohen ◽  
Marsha Joselaw ◽  
Priscilla S. Osborne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants ◽  
Collection Strategies

Follow-up of the graduates of neonatal intensive care is an important component of the provision of such care. However, the objectives of these programs and their data-collection strategies vary widely. This report describes the potential objectives and different data-collection strategies. It then reviews briefly what is known about the outcomes of very low birth weight infants to guide the development of assessment packets: Finally, we describe the operation of our program and activities of our team to illustrate the follow-up experience in a large multi-institution program.

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