COVID-19 increased the risk of ICU-acquired bloodstream infections: a case–cohort study from the multicentric OUTCOMEREA network

Purpose The primary objective of this study was to investigate the risk of ICU bloodstream infection (BSI) in critically ill COVID-19 patients compared to non-COVID-19 patients. Subsequently, we performed secondary analyses in order to explain the observed results. Methods We conducted a matched case-cohort study, based on prospectively collected data from a large ICU cohort in France. Critically ill COVID-19 patients were matched with similar non-COVID-19 patients. ICU-BSI was defined by an infection onset occurring > 48 h after ICU admission. We estimated the effect of COVID-19 on the probability to develop an ICU-BSI using proportional subdistribution hazards models. Results We identified 321 COVID-19 patients and 1029 eligible controls in 6 ICUs. Finally, 235 COVID-19 patients were matched with 235 non-COVID-19 patients. We observed 43 ICU-BSIs, 35 (14.9%) in the COVID-19 group and 8 (3.4%) in the non-COVID-19 group (p ≤ 0.0001), respectively. ICU-BSIs of COVID-19 patients were more frequently of unknown source (47.4%). COVID-19 patients had an increased probability to develop ICU-BSI, especially after 7 days of ICU admission. Using proportional subdistribution hazards models, COVID-19 increased the daily risk to develop ICU-BSI (sHR 4.50, 95% CI 1.82–11.16, p = 0.0012). Among COVID-19 patients (n = 235), a significantly increased risk for ICU-BSI was detected in patients who received tocilizumab or anakinra (sHR 3.20, 95% CI 1.31–7.81, p = 0.011) but not corticosteroids. Conclusions Using prospectively collected multicentric data, we showed that the ICU-BSI risk was higher for COVID-19 than non-COVID-19 critically ill patients after seven days of ICU stay. Clinicians should be particularly careful on late ICU-BSIs in COVID-19 patients. Tocilizumab or anakinra may increase the ICU-BSI risk..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

Intensive care medicine - 47(2021), 2 vom: 27. Jan., Seite 180-187

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Buetti, Niccolò [VerfasserIn]
Ruckly, Stéphane [VerfasserIn]
de Montmollin, Etienne [VerfasserIn]
Reignier, Jean [VerfasserIn]
Terzi, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Yves [VerfasserIn]
Siami, Shidasp [VerfasserIn]
Dupuis, Claire [VerfasserIn]
Timsit, Jean-François [VerfasserIn]

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44.69

Themen:

Bloodstream infection
COVID-19
Hospital-acquired
ICU
SARS-CoV-2

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© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021. corrected publication 2021

doi:

10.1007/s00134-021-06346-w

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SPR04313940X