RESUMO

In order to determine the sepsis induced by the practice of canalizing the deep venous sector in revascularized patients, 43 catheters removed from 43 patients were cultured; no sepsis induced by this practice was found and 13 catheters had positive cultures, which amounted to 30.3% of the sample under study; five catheters (38.4%) with positive cultures belonged to patients who showed no sepsis; eight catheters (61.5%) with positive cultures corresponded to patients who showed septic focci. The average stay was 4.07 days. The germ most frequently found was negative coagulase staphylococcus.

Assuntos

Infecções Bacterianas/epidemiologia , Cateterismo Periférico/efeitos adversos , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Bactérias/isolamento & purificação , Infecções Bacterianas/etiologia , Cateterismo Periférico/instrumentação , Cateterismo Periférico/estatística & dados numéricos , Cateteres de Demora/efeitos adversos , Cateteres de Demora/estatística & dados numéricos , Cuidados Críticos/estatística & dados numéricos , Cuba/epidemiologia , Contaminação de Equipamentos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fatores de Risco , Fatores Sexuais