Research Article
Hospital-Acquired Blood Stream Infection in an Adult Intensive Care Unit
Table 2
Reasons for admission to the intensive care unit for patients who developed a unit-acquired blood stream infection.
| Reason for admission to the intensive care unit | Number of cases (%) |
| Decompensated heart failure | 4 (33) | Postoperative complications | 3 (25) | Neutropaenic sepsis | 3 (25) | Complete heart block | 1 (8) | Infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 1 (8) |
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