[HIGHLIGHTS] ICU infection mortality rates return to pre-pandemic levels

ICU infection mortality rates return to pre-pandemic levels. In reality, "improving was easy because...

the situation during the pandemic was disastrous," says Francisco Álvarez Lerma, head of Section Emeritus in the ICU of the Parc de Salut Mar. According to the data collected in Envin, corresponding to 2023, all infection rates have had a sharp decrease. The data that has returned to 2019 levels, even improving them, is mortality due to infection related to invasive devices, which in 2020 went from 9.69% to 14.34%.