Infección por catéter de diálisis en pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica, Hospital José María Velasco Ibarra, periodo 2017-2018

Abstract

The objective of this research project was to determine the prevalence of dialysis catheter infections in patients with Chronic Renal Disease of the José María Velasco Ibarra Hospital, 2017-2018 period. The study was quantitative, descriptive, analytical, retrospective, cross-sectional and descriptive statistics. The population studied was all patients with central venous catheter in hemodialysis hospitalized in the internal medicine service of the José Maria Velasco Ibarra Hospital during the period January 2017 and December 2018. For data collection, a data collection sheet was used. It was determined that the prevalence of infections associated with dialysis catheter in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease is 42.1% of our total population. It occurs more frequently in men with 75% in relation to women with 25%. The germ most frequently isolated in dialysis catheter infection was Staphylococcus aureus with 37.5% followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae with 25%. It was concluded according to the results obtained in our study that there is a high level of bacteraemia associated with the use of dialysis catheter. Vancomycin was the most frequently used antibiotic empirically in 62.5% of cases that had dialysis catheter infection.