Clinical Audit of Urosepsis Treated in a Malaysian Surgery Unit

This is a retrospective audit of all patients admitted to the surgical unit for urosepsis from June 2014 to June 2015 at the General Surgery Unit of Hospital Sultan Ismail, Malaysia. Demographics, comorbidities, presenting symptoms, length of stay (LOS), mortality, and associated risk factors were recorded. There were 35 patients treated for urosepsis with a male preponderance of 21/35 patients. Hypertension (n=18) and diabetes (n=10) were the two most common comorbidities. There were five deaths (mortality rate=14.3%) and the main bacterium cultured was Escherichia coli. Age >65, presence of underlying comorbid disease, presence of cancer, urine and blood culture positivity had higher incidence of death but were not statistically significant for urosepsis mortality. However, this result is limited by the small sample size and single centre retrospective data.