Device-associated infection Critical Care Unit
Facts & Figures
The Critical Care Unit in the Ulster Hospital contributes to the Regional Public Health Agency
Device-Associated Infection Surveillance Programme. All device-associated infections are
reported on a monthly basis.
• Figures 1 - 6 outline the device-associated infections occurring within the Trust Critical Care
Unit compared to the regional average in 2019. The incidences of infection occurring within
our Critical Care Unit remain low
• There have been no urinary catheter-associated infections reported since the surveillance
programme commenced in 2011 (Figure 3 & 4). The small number of ventilator-associated
and central line-associated infections was not thought to be linked with transmission of
infection in the Critical Care Unit. Figures 1, 2, 5 & 6.
(Thanks to the Public Health Agency Surveillance team for letting us use Figures 1 - 6 below).
Critical Device-associated infection rates
Figure 1: Regional Ventilator-associated infections in Critical Care units in 2019
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