Background: Blood stream infections are the leading cause of sepsis among the pediatric intensive care unit patients leading to morbidity and mortality. The increase use of antimicrobials result in prevalence of of multidrug resistant organisms.
Material and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted on the patients admitted to pediatric intensive care unit over a period of 12 months (February 2018 to January 2019). Data regarding gender, geographical distribution, blood culture results and antibiotic sensitivity patterns was collected.
Results: Out of total samples obtained, 10.2% were culture positive and 89.8% showed no growth. On further analysis of these isolates, gram positive bacteremia rate was found much higher as compared to gram negative infections.
Conclusions: Because of the changing antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, aggressive measures should be taken to prevent bacteremia like routine screening of cultures to know the trend of prevalent microorganisms to initiate appropriate antibiotics.
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2022: 6.012
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