Impact of antimicrobial stewardship in organisms causing nosocomial infection among COVID-19 critically ill adults.

Objective: To evaluate the implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program in critically ill COVID-19 patients and to establish risk factors for coinfection. Secondary objective was to analyze the evolution of the etiology of respiratory nosocomial infections.

Methods: Single-center observational cohort study of consecutive patients admitted to ICU due to COVID-19 pneumonia from March 2020 to October 2022.

[Decisiones de no ingreso en las Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos como medida de limitación de los tratamientos de soporte vital: variabilidad geográfica en España].

From a post hoc analysis of the ADENI-UCI study (multicenter, observational, cohort, prospective study, with a follow-up period of 13 months, in 62 Intensive Medicine Services in Spain. geographical differences in the reason for denial of income in UCI as a LTSV measure are analyzed. A total of 2284 with an average age of 75.

Limiting ICU admission from emergency services and wards.

Introduction: Decisions not to admit a patient to intensive care units (ICU) as a way of limiting life support treatment (LLST) is a practice that can affect the operation of the emergency services and the way in which patients die.

Methods: Post hoc analysis of the ADENI-UCI study. The main variable analysed was the reason for refusal of admission to the ICU as a measure of LLST.