Relationship Between Blood Transfusion and Risk of Nosocomial infection in Intensive Care Unit Patients

Objective: to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganismsresponsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit).patients and methods: in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospitalbetween august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the contacts fordisease control and development national nosocomial infections surveillance definitions. overall, site specificnosocomial infections rates, blood units received, attributable mortality rate and excess length of hospital stay andother variable were considered.results: the overall nosocomial infection rate was 24.9% (54 patients). the most common type of nosocomialinfection was respiratory tract infections (6.5%, 14) with an attributable mortality rate of 3.7%. in patients whoreceived blood products, 26.6% (37) acquired nosocomial infections. despite the high percentage of blood transfusionin the hospital, no statistically significant relationship was observed between nosocomial infections and blood producttransfusion.conclusion: no significance relation was found between nis and blood transfusion, but was observed between ffptransfusion and nis. it’s emphasized the need for careful disinfection for ffp transfusion in ears that serveimmunosuppressed individual, such as pediatric patients