Abstract:Summary. Because of increasingly frequent infection rates bacteriologic problems represent a crucial point in the whole field of intensive care. Reasons of higher infection rates are the growing involvement of extremely young and older age groups, the increasing number of high risk operations, immunosuppressive therapy, contamination of equipment, as well as of intravenous and urinary catheters, and resistance to antibiotics.Especially endangered by infections are patients with tracheostomy, after prolonged in… Show more
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