If the SARS-CoV-2 is a virus, the effects of The Covid-19 pandemic has been noted in antibiotic resistance. This has been clarified in the XI Virtual Meeting of Infected Sicknesses of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI).
Juan Pasquau Liaño, from the Internal Medicine Service of the Virgen University Hospital in Granada, stated that “during the pandemic, the use of antibiotic therapy in hospitals has increased and a problem of bacterial resistance has been identified”.
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Approximately, “between 72 and 75 per cent of Covid-19 patients received antibiotic treatment”, given that the relationship between this and the bacterial infections “is relatively frequent and important”. Sondeverbod, “it has been established that, effectively, hubo coinfection in a minor percentage of cases”.
Pasquau Liaño also referred to the sepsis, indicating that the mortality rate in these patients is approximately 10 per cent, “although can read up to 40 per cent if we are skeptical of shock shock. This percentage varies depending on, for example, the pathogen that causes the infection and is resistant to the fragility of the patient ”.
In front of bacterial resistances, new antibiotics such as ceftazidima-avibactam or ceftolozano-tazobactam “are very common in restricted conditions and have mayor capacity in front of bacteria that are more antiquated than ceftriaxone”.
Spanish Registry of Endocarditis Infecciosa in Internal Medicine
The reunion also took place at the Spanish Registry of Infectious Endocarditis in Internal Medicine (Reeimi), which currently has 375 cases and 42,074 clinical dates. And el registro participates in 61 investigators from 45 hospitals.
Respect for the characteristics of this patient, has a edad media the 67.5 years, the 36.4 per cent uses the prosthetic valves –the majority of them of the aortic type, the 28.2 per cent –, the 6.2 per cent have a congenital cardiopathy and the 7.1 per cent have a form endocarditis previa.
The main complications are the need for UCI (40 per cent), septic embolism (22 per cent) and septic shock (17 per cent). The hospital media station has 30 days.
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