Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

Panaphut T, Domrongkitchaiporn S, Vibhagool A, et al. Ceftriaxone compared with sodium penicillin g for treatment of severe lep ...

19 Infections in Cirrhosis in Critical Care Laurel C. Preheim Departments of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Crei ...

derived from the sum of the points for each of these five parameters. Patients with chronic liver disease are placed in one of t ...

Diagnosis Classic signs and symptoms of peritonitis, including fever, chills, abdominal pain, and increasing ascites may or may ...

prolonged treatment using ceftriaxone or with a change to another antibiotic according to susceptibility, SBP resolved in seven ...

the severity of liver disease, and individuals with cirrhosis are more likely to have a diagnosis of sepsis when compared with p ...

likely to have infection due to multidrug-resistant pathogens. Initial empiric therapy in such cases should include an antipseud ...

spontaneous bacterial empyema includeE. coli,K. pneumoniae, and streptococci, including Enterococcusspecies, andS. bovis. A diag ...

Westphal J, Jehl F, Vetter D. Pharmacological, toxicologic, and microbiological considerations in the choice of initial antibio ...

Rimola A, Bory F, Teres J, et al. Oral, nonabsorbable antibiotics prevent infection in cirrhotics with gastrointestinal hemorrh ...

20 Severe Infections in Asplenic Patients in Critical Care Mohammed S. Ahmed Infectious Diseases Fellow, Southern Illinois Unive ...

factor (TNF), interleukins (IL) 1,2,6, and 8, platelet-activating factor (PAF), endorphins, and endothelial-derived relaxin fact ...

Haemophilus influenzae H. influenzaetype b is the second most common organism related to OPSI and accounts for 32% of the mortal ...

A high index of clinical suspicion must be maintained for febrile presentations in the asplenic patient or one with a chronic di ...

pneumococci. Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and the macrolides do not have consistent activity against penicillin-resistant pneum ...

considered in asplenic individuals two years or older. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is used for routine vaccination of childre ...

rigors. If there is likely to be a delay in medical evaluation, most authorities support this strategy, but there is no proof th ...

Kalb R, Kaplan MH, Tenebaum MJ, et al. Cutaneous infection at dog bite wound associated with fulminant DF-2 septicemia. Am J Me ...

Siber GR, Weitzman SA, Aisenberg AC. Antibody response of patients with Hodgkin’s disease to protein and polysaccharide antigen ...

21 Infections in Burns in Critical Care Steven E. Wolf and Basil A. Pruitt, Jr. Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Depart ...