DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i11.037

Pages: 2019-2025

Background: Infection is the most common cause of deaths after burns. However, the difference in infection patterns between the burn intensive care unit and burn common wards has no longer been really investigated. The current study finds out about aimed to evaluate infection profile, antimicrobial resistance, and changing patterns in burn patients in burn intensive care unit (ICU) and common wards. Objectives: The aim of the study to compare the infection profile, antimicrobial resistance, and their changing patterns in burn patients. Methods: Clinical samples were analyzed between April 2021 to March 2022 in Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The patient information, pathogen distribution, sources, and antimicrobial resistance were retrospectively collected. A total of 250 and 275 strains were detected in burn intensive care unit (ICU) and Common Wards, respectively. This cross- sectional study was done among patients to diagnose as different infection profiles and antimicrobial resistance patterns between burn ICU and common wards. Result: Out of 525 patients, the study population of the Burn Intensive Care Unit was 250, and the Burn common wards were 275. Most of the patients in Burn Intensive Care Unit 142(56.8%) were 18 to 30 years and Burn Common Wards 153(55.63%) belongs to 18-30 years age group. The majority of the patients in the Burn Intensive Care Unit 52.4% were flame burn and in common wards 46.27% were electric burns. In burn Intensive Care Unit, the most common pathogen sources (47.6%) were wound tissue, and in Burn common wards (90.90%) were wound tissue. Conclusion: Our existing study indicates that the infection profile is specific between burn Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and common Wards, and multidrug resistance is extra serious in burn intensive care unit (ICU) than in common wards. Therefore, exceptional infection-control techniques ought to be emphasized in extraordinary burn populations.