Healthcare-Associated Infections After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Retrospective Single-Center Cohort Study

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Aleksandra Kosikowska and seven co-authors study infections picked up in hospital after bleeding from a burst brain aneurysm, in a two thousand twenty-six paper. Such infections often make care harder in neurocritical care units. The team looked back at one hundred six adults treated at one center from two thousand nineteen to two thousand twenty-four. They tracked the time to a first infection and what it meant for how patients fared.

Infections hit forty-four percent of patients, at a median of ten days. Lung infections from ventilators were most common, followed by urinary and spinal fluid infections. One highly resistant bacterium dominated the severe resistant isolates. Higher severity grades at admission were tied to a first infection. An infection was tied to slower live discharge, but not clearly to death in hospital. The team took timing into account when they weighed those links.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13565980