Introduction:

healthcare-associated infections are considered a major health problem worldwide and have great economic and social repercussions. They appear after 48 hours of hospital stay. They are caused by a wide variety of fungi, bacteria and viruses acquired during health care in the treatment of other conditions.

Objective:

to characterize infections associated with health care in the Miscellaneous Service of the "Gral Milanés" Teaching Pediatric Provincial Hospital.

Methods:

a descriptive, observational and retrospective study was conducted in 2019. The universe consisted of 53 patients who were diagnosed with healthcare-associated infection and the sample was represented by 44 patients who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Results:

male sex 61.4%, children under one year 77.3%, the range of 4-6 days 34.1%, fever 41.5%, bacteremia 43.2% and cephalosporins of 4th generation were the most significant results.

Conclusions:

children under one year of age and males were the most represented in the study, fever was the most observed clinical manifestation, the range of hospital stay of 4-6 days was the one with the highest incidence, primary bacteremia was the predominant and 4th generation cephalosporins was the most used antimicrobial therapeutic.

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