The use of a critical care consult team to identify risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and the potential for early intervention: A pilot study

Adam Keene; Luciano Lemos-Filho; Michael Levi; Jose Gomez-Marquez; Jose Yunen; Hayder Said; Franklin D. Lowy

doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b42d03

The use of a critical care consult team to identify risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and the potential for early intervention: A pilot study

Adam Keene, Luciano Lemos-Filho, Michael Levi, Jose Gomez-Marquez, Jose Yunen, Hayder Said, Franklin D. Lowy

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OBJECTIVE: To test whether a critical care consult team can be used to identify patients who have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization during a window period at which they are at highest risk for methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection and can most benefit from topical decolonization strategies. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Two adult tertiary care hospitals. PATIENTS: Patients with at least one risk factor for methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization who were seen by a critical care consult team for potential intensive care unit admission were enrolled. INTERVENTIONS: Nasal cultures for methicillin-resistant S. aureus were performed on all subjects. All subjects were followed for the development of a methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection for 60 days or until hospital discharge. Demographic and outcome data were recorded on all subjects. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Two hundred subjects were enrolled. Overall 29 of 200 (14.5%) were found to have methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections occurred in seven of 29 (24.1%) subjects with methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization vs. one of 171 (0.6%) subjects without methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization (p <.001). Methicillin-resistant S. aureus clinical specimens were recovered in 15 of 29 (51.7%) subjects with methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization vs. two of 171 (1.2%) without methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization. CONCLUSIONS: A critical care consult team can be used to rapidly recognize patients with methicillin-resistant S. aureus nasal colonization who are at very elevated risk for methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection. The use of such a team to recognize patients who have greatest potential benefit from decolonization techniques might reduce the burden of severe methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	109-113
Number of pages	5
Journal	Critical care medicine
Volume	38
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b42d03
State	Published - Jan 2010

Keywords

Infection prevention
MRSA
Nasal colonization
Nosocomial infection
Staphylococcus aureus

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Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

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