{"id":443,"date":"2011-04-09T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-04-12T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:33:00","slug":"multidrug-resistant-acinetobacter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/multidrug-resistant-acinetobacter\/","title":{"rendered":"Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Chris was diagnosed with a mild urinary tract infection last week (after the seizures), but the results came back from Methodist this evening, and it’s a combination of Escherichia coli<\/a><\/em> and Acinetobacter baumannii<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A. baumannii<\/em> (and E. coli<\/em>) are multiple-drug resistant, so they’re a bit more serious than your standard UTI.\u00a0 Apparently Chris is the second patient at RIOSA who has been colonized by A. baumannii<\/em>.\u00a0 Apparently it’s going around at Brooks Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, too.<\/p>\n

Not sure how Chris came down with this, but the infection raised the risk of seizures (and perhaps contributed to them last week).\u00a0 Argh.<\/p>\n

Chris is now in kind of a quarantine situation at RIOSA until they can get rid of the infection (everyone entering the room has to don disposable protective gear head to toe,\u00a0 and it gets discarded when you leave).<\/p>\n

Hopefully the antibiotics they’ve chosen to go after this knock it out quickly – looking at the chart, you had 2-3 antibiotics you could try (the other 8 or so on the list were ineffective).<\/p>\n

Update – April 12th:<\/strong><\/em> The first urinalysis sample retrieved at Methodist Hospital came from a very old (two weeks) drainage bag;\u00a0 a subsequent “clean” re-test, collected at RIOSA, is showing negative results.\u00a0 A doctor is going to have to get involved to make sure;\u00a0 an incorrect diagnosis due to invalid test results could potentially put the entire hospital – patients, staff, visitors and all – in isolation for a lengthy amount of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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