Abstract :
Introduction: The ICU in a hospital has a vital role to play in delivering prompt, appropriate and adequate
care to critically ill patients. Patients in ICU are at greatest risk of acquiring device associated hospital
acquired infection (DA-HAI). Infection control practices are the need of hour to control these infections.
Objectives: Aim and objective of present study was to assess the role of preventive interventions in
reducing the hospital acquired infection in ICU.
Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted over a period of one year from November 2017
to August 2018 in the Department of Anesthesiology, Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar. The study was
conducted into pre and post interventional period to assess the role of preventive interventions in reducing
the device associated acquired infections and results were statistically analysed.
Results: During pre interventional study period 16/262 (6.1%) patients developed device associated
infection and rate per 1000 device days was 6.25/1000. After interventions 3/132(2.27%) patients
developed device associated infection and rate was significantly reduced to 2.92/1000.
Conclusion: The implementation of various infection control measures to control DA-HAIs is found to be
effective during study. Systematically collected data and findings of our study can be utilized in the ICU
setting as a basic step toward a better infection control strategy for improving patient care practices.
Keyword :
ICU, DA-HAIs, Preventive interventions.