Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

of evidence-based clinical guidelines and quality improvement programs, which are becoming the standard in intensive care units ...

changes increase the risk of shearing with loss of grafts or underlying healing cells. Soaks will remain effective because antib ...

such as second-degree wounds. It also can cause an allergic skin rash and has carbonic anhydrase inhibitory characteristics that ...

The most common sources of sepsis are the wound and/or the tracheobronchial tree; efforts to identify causative agents should be ...

Army Burn Center (2003–2008), approximately 25% of the isolates from patients newly admitted are of this type. However, in no ca ...

As early as 1971, it was noted that with the introduction of topical mafenide acetate, wound infections caused byPhycomycetesand ...

however, does not imply infection. It is only with invasion of organisms into viable tissue that they gain access to the bloodst ...

mortality increases as the histologic staging increases from IA to IIC with a marked increase in mortality between stages IC and ...

obtained with frequent irrigation with Dakin’s (sodium hypochlorite) or Domburo’s (acetic acid) solution. BACTEREMIA The topical ...

identified and controlled. In fact, investigators have shown that 17% of burned patients who develop sepsis associated with mult ...

injury causing airway edema and unhealed lesions and purulence in the tracheobronchial tree (Fig. 5). This provides a portal of ...

LINE SEPSIS As in other critically ill populations, the presence of indwelling catheters for infusion treatments provides a pote ...

should be considered. In these cases even with appropriate treatment, mortality approaches 100% as a reflection of the severity ...

SUMMARY Infectious complications have decreased in the severely burned due to effective strategies for prevention and treatment. ...

Wilson SJ, Knipe CJ, Zieger MJ, et al. Direct costs of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the burn unit of a publi ...

Lopez-Aguilar C, Perez-Roth E, Moreno A, et al. Association between the presence of the Panton- Valentine leukocidin-encoding g ...

22 Infections Related to Steroids in Immunosuppressive/Immunomodulating Agents in Critical Care Lesley Ann Saketkoo and Luis R. ...

Unlike the other therapeutic agents discussed in this chapter that need to be stopped immediately upon signs of serious infectio ...

Biologic agents currently in use or under investigation can roughly be divided into: Anti-cytokine [anti-tumor necrosis factor- ...

B-cell depletionvia targeting of the anti-CD20 B-cell surface marker is the anticipated mechanism of action of rituximab. It is ...