[Hospital sepsis and pre-existing disease]
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Design of Cecal Ligation and Puncture and Intranasal Infection Dual Model of Sepsis-Induced Immunosuppression
Published on: June 15, 2019
Nada Koluder1, Nermina Bajramović
1Klinika za infektivne bolesti, Klinicki centar Univerziteta Sarajevo.
Aim:
By retrospective study in a fifteen period from 1990 to 2004 to research if a pre-existential disease influences the appearance of gram-positive and gram-negative clear determinated hospital sepsis among 200 septic patients, selected by a random method and with clinic-laboratory signs of sepsis and monomicrobial blood culture.
Methodology:
Specimen of septic patients analysed in relation to the patient condition and statistically processed using chi2 test and contigential coefficient C.
Results:
We received statistically significant results when we have correlated gram-negative hospital sepsis and pre-existential disease, until this significancy was absent in gram-positive hospital sepsis.
Conclusion:
Pre-existential disease can indicate sepsis, the place of acquisition and etiology.
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