Abstract

YODU FERRAL, Nancy et al. Estudio sobre la utilización de antimicrobianos en pacientes hospitalizados. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2000, vol.38, n.2, pp.117-121. ISSN 0253-1751.

A study was made on 188 patients with urinary infections and 95 with low respiratory infections, randomly selected from 1989 to 1994 in "10 de Octubre" Clinical and Surgical Hospsital, for the purpose of finding out the antimicrobials used to treat such infections and whether their treatments have microbiological and laboratory support. The microbiological studies were scarce : urocudslture 39,9% and sputum gram staining in 8.4% of patients. The serum creatinin was prescribed only in 64.4% of the treated patients with nephrotoxic antimicrobials. The most used antibiotics in urinary infections were: beta-lactamic (27.8%), cotrimaxol (21.4%), and chloranphenicol (18.3%) and for respiratory infections: beta-lactamic (51.6%), aminoglycoside (22.2%) and cotrimaxol (18.3%). Generally speaking, the group of antimicrobials used to treat these infections coincide with those reported in medical literature but an increase in laboratory and microbiological studies will contribute to a more rational use of these drugs.

Keywords : RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION [drug therapy]; UROLOGIC DISEASES [drug therapy]; ANTIBIOTICS [therapeutic use]; HOSPITALIZATION.

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