Impact of removing sinks from an intensive care unit on isolations by gram-negative non-fermenting bacilli in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation.

Introduction And Objective: Contamination of sinks, even due to their underuse, is associated with the transmission of non-fermenting gram-negative bacilli (NFGNB) to patients in Augmented Care Units. After previous monitoring with environmental and patient samples, we now explore the impact of removing sinks from ICU cubicles on incidental isolations related to health care in bronchoaspirate samples of patients with invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV).

Material And Methods: Quasi-experimental study, before-and-after, pre-intervention annuities April 2014-2016 and post-intervention April 2016-2017.

Under-utilization of taps in intensive care unit as a cause of reservoirs of nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli.

Introduction: The under-utilisation of taps is associated with the generation of reservoirs of non-fermenting gram-negative bacilli with the ability to disseminate. We describe the detection and approach of the problem in an ICU.

Methods: Observational descriptive study in an ICU with individual cubicles with their own sink.