Factores asociados a la infección por staphylococcus aureus resistente a la meticilina en una unidad de terapia intensiva

Objective: To identify factors associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in adult patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and to compare them with a control group. Methods: Retrospective case-control study carried out in an adult ICU, from January 2015 to June 2017, with 61 patients who developed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and the same number of control patients. Results: Most participants were male 65 (60.6%), with a neurological diagnosis 43 (35.2%) and hypertensive 61 (50.0%). In the comparison of the groups, there was a statistically significant difference in relation to mechanical ventilation (p=0.0107), tracheostomy (p=0.0083), death (p=0.0401), urinary catheter (p=0.0420), length of stay (p