id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-325021-rv5fsitx Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto Bloodstream infections in critically ill patients with COVID‐19 2020-06-14 .txt text/plain 2695 131 47 BACKGROUND: Little is known about the incidence and risk of intensive care unit (ICU)‐acquired bloodstream infections (BSI) in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). While the demographics, clinical characteristics, and overall survival of patients with COVID-19 admitted to ICU have been already extensively characterized by large reports from several parts of the word, little is still known about non-viral infectious complications such as bacterial or fungal bloodstream infections (BSI), that may participate in adversely influencing the outcome of any ICU-admitted patient 6, 7 . In the present study, we aimed to retrospectively assess the incidence rate, cumulative risk, predictors, and survival of ICU-acquired BSI in patients with COVID-19 admitted to two ICUs in a large teaching hospital in Northern Italy, one of the most affected areas in Europe to date 8 . ./cache/cord-325021-rv5fsitx.txt ./txt/cord-325021-rv5fsitx.txt