Prospective surveillance of drain-associated meningitis/ventriculitis in a neurosurgery and a neurologic intensive care unit.

Simone Scheithauer (1) , Uli Bürgel (1) , Yu-Mi Ryang (1) , Susann Koch (2) , Johannes Schiefer (1) , Helga Häfner (1) , Gerhard Haase (1) , Sebastian Werner Lemmen (1)

1 RWTH - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
2 University Hospital Cologne

There are currently no data available on drain-associated infection occurrence related to the number of drainage-days, and thus drain-associated infection rates. Therefore, we conducted a prospective surveillance study to determine drain-associated infection rates and drainage-days of hospital-acquired external ventricular drain- (EVD) and lumbar drain- (LD) associated meningitis/ventriculitis in a neurosurgery (NSICU) and a neurologic intensive care unit (NICU).

Mots clés: BACTERIOLOGY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE; NEUROSURGERY

Simone Scheithauer, Uli Bürgel, Yu-Mi Ryang, Susann Koch, Johannes Schiefer, et al.. Prospective surveillance of drain-associated meningitis/ventriculitis in a neurosurgery and a neurologic intensive care unit.. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2009, 80 (12), pp.1381. ⟨10.1136/jnnp.2008.165357⟩. ⟨hal-00552735⟩