Table 1.
Baseline demographic and Clinical characteristics of Patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.
Fig 1.
Admitting diagnosis of Patients in Intensive Care Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.
“Others” as a group of admitting diagnosis included: post-surgical patients, patients with chronic renal failure and malignancies.
Fig 2.
Distribution of Intensive Care Unit-acquired infections in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.
Bloodstream infection (48.9%); Urinary tract infection (35.6%); Skin-soft tissue infection (8.9%); Respiratory tract infection (6.7%).
Fig 3.
Distribution of Causative microorganisms by the sites of Intensive Care Unit–acquired infections in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.
KEY: RTI = Respiratory tract infections; SSTs = Skin-soft tissue infections; UTI = Urinary tract infections; BSI = Blood stream infections; CoNS = Coagulase negative staphylococcus.
Table 2.
Resistance profile of Gram negative isolates from Intensive Care Unit infections in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.
Table 3.
Univariate analysis of risk factors for Intensive Care Unit-acquired infections in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.
Table 4.
Result of Univariate and Multivariate regression analysis of risk factors for ICU mortality.