Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

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12 Intravenous Central Line Infections in Critical Care Burke A. Cunha Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital ...

acquired during venipuncture, CVC infection is diagnosed if the blood culture isolate is the same organism recovered from the re ...

are clinically ill with fevers of 1028 F accompanied by rigors. Blood culture positivity is usually of high grade, i.e., 3/4–4/ ...

focus. Patients with ABE often have no initial murmur or may have a new/rapidly changing cardiac murmur. With lung ABE, often th ...

Table 5 Classification of MRSA Infections MRSA Strain Description Treatment HA-MRSA These strains originate within the hospital ...

Table 8 Vancomycin Delayed Resolution/Failure in Treating MSSA/MRSA Bacteremias and ABE Failure Rates Duration of Bacteremia Ref ...

considerations, for S. aureusisolates with an MIC > 1 mg/mL, vancomycin kills in a concentration-dependent manner, but for is ...

the nonantibiotic causes of apparent antibiotic failure should also be considered, i.e., myocardial abscess, noncardiac septic f ...

Fowler VG Jr, Olsen MK, Corey GR, et al. Clinical identifiers of complicatedStaphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Arch Intern Med 2 ...

Cui L, Ma K, Sato K, et al. Cell wall thickening is a common feature of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin ...

13 Infective Endocarditis and Its Mimics in Critical Care John L. Brusch Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambrid ...

Table 1 Microbiology of IE in Different Risk Groups Microorganism recovered (% of cases) Native valve endocarditis Intravenous d ...