Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profile of Bacterial Isolates Among Patients Admitted to the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study

ETT was the most common sample collected, and most pathogens were from <i>Enterobacterales</i>.The most prevalent pathogens were <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>, <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>, <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>, <i>Escherichia coli</i>, and <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>. We also noticed a few cases of emerging pathogens like <i>Elizabethkingia meningoseptica</i> and <i>Morganella morganii</i>. <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>, <i>Escherichia coli</i>, and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> were highly sensitive to tigecycline. Cefoperazone-sulbactam was highly effective against <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>. <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> isolates showed maximum sensitivity towards linezolid and vancomycin.