Table 2.
Outcome of 110 traumatic patients who developed bloodstream infection after surgery in the ICU.
| Variables | Total (n = 110) | Enteral nutrition after ICU admission |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <48 h (n = 68) | >48 h (n = 42) | |||
| Wound infection | 18 (16.4) | 7 (10.3) | 11 (26.2) | 0.03 |
| Anastomotic rupture | 1 (0.9) | 0 | 1 (2.4) | 0.20 |
| Vomiting | 4 (3.6) | 3 (4.4) | 1 (2.4) | 0.58 |
| Abdominal distension | 25 (22.7) | 16 (23.5) | 9 (21.4) | 0.79 |
| Diarrhage | 3 (2.7) | 1 (1.5) | 2 (4.8) | 0.31 |
| Gastrointestinal hemorrhage | 4 (3.6) | 1 (1.5) | 3 (7.1) | 0.12 |
| Urinary tract infection | 14 (12.7) | 9 (13.8) | 5 (11.9) | 0.84 |
| Pulmonary infection | 24 (21.8) | 14 (20.6) | 10 (23.8) | 0.69 |
| Hospital stay (d) | 55.6 ± 35.4 | 76.8 ± 41.4 | 81.4 ± 44.7 | 0.01 |
| Postoperative death | 5 (4.5) | 0 (0) | 5 (11.9) | 0.01 |
ICU: intensive are unit.