The Use of Meropenem in an Intensive Care Center in a Hospital Unit in Campos Dos Goytacazes-Rj

Abstract

The Intensive Care Centers (ICU) existing in hospitals and designed to welcome patients in serious condition with chances of survival, are sectors that require constant monitoring and much more complex care. Thus, the ICUs are equipped with a continuous monitoring system, which assists patients in serious condition or with decompensation of one or more organ systems. This study aims to identify and report critically ill patients using the antibiotic Meropenem. The surveys were carried out from January to June 2015 in a private hospital in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes -RJ. Data were searched from medical prescriptions and their due laboratory tests. Thus, 72 of the hospitalized patients 30 patients used Meropenem during this period. For this reason, an antibiogram is essential so that the therapy with the carbapenem can be done correctly and safely and, consequently, for the treatment to be successful.