Aspectos clínicos, epidemiológicos, microbiológicos e terapêuticos da candidemia nosocomial em unidades neonatal e pediátrica em um hospital geral em Belém/ Pará

Abstract

The fungals infections have been emerging as responsible for nosocomial infections, particularly when associates with morbities as prematureness, blood diseases, hospitable stay for more than 15 days, come in another. With the purpose of evaluating candidemia occurrence in patients of neonates and of the pediatrics put into hospital in public hospital in Belém / Pará, Fundação Santa Casa of Misericórdia from Pará (FSCMP), was accomplished a retrospective study having as investigation base all the cultures accomplished in hospital from January 1999 to December 2004. Of a total of 2.622 cultures, just five with C. albicans isolation of pediatrics and neonates patients. It is worth stress that it was not identified no other species of Candida. The children had between 0 until 9 months, and all of them were submitted for surgical procedures. Occurring other concomitant hospitable infections to candidemias. Among signals and symptoms introduced at the moment of the isolation of Candida note that respiratory disfunction and fever were the most frequent. Anemia and leukocytoses were the laboratories alterations predominant. Some risk factors for candidemia development were identified as antibiotics therapy, surgeries, blood transfusion, and use of blocking of H2, central veined catheter, probe pray-gastric. Among antibiotics used note that antibiotic of wide spectrum, like ceftazidime, imipenem, vancomycin, were used in most cases (4/5). The average time of hospitable stay belonged to 55 days, and three patient remained put into hospital in ICU. This work reflects a Candida's low isolation in children put into hospital in FSCMP, suggesting an improvement in the tests employees for mushrooms cultures.