Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

for 60 days). Delay in initiating antibiotics in patients with pulmonary disease resulted in a 40% to 75% mortality. Cutaneous d ...

Recovery or Death (Stage V) On average, death occurs 18 days after the onset of symptoms. Patients cared for in intensive care u ...

Clinicians confronted with the first victims must put themselves into the mind of the enemy. Diagnostic, therapeutic, and infect ...

Centers for Disease Control. Draft guide C, part 1: infection control measures for healthcare and community settings. Available ...

Kyiacou DN, Yarnold PL, Soltysik RC, et al. Derivation of a triage algorithm for chest radiography of community-acquired pneumo ...

Wilkening DA. Modeling the incubation period of inhalational anthrax. Med Decis Making 2008; 28:593–605. Wilkening DA. Sverdlov ...

Sugden BW, Katchmar R. Bioterrorism and its aftermath: dealing individually and organizationally with the emotional reactions t ...

26 Selection of Antibiotics in Critical Care Divya Ahuja Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine ...

AGGRESSIVE INITIAL EMPIRIC ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY Today’s mantra for antimicrobial prescribing in the ICU reads: “Hit early, hit ...

Table 1 Empiric Antibiotic Selections in ICU Abdomen Blood Central nervous system Lung Skin Urine Site Peritonitis Sepsis  shoc ...

Table 1 Empiric Antibiotic Selections in ICU ( Continued ) Abdomen Blood Central nervous system Lung Skin Urine Site Peritonitis ...

commonly due to vascular access lines. Gram-positive cocci including methicillin- resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (MR ...

microbiologic specimens is beyond the scope of this brief chapter, the following should be mentioned: l Suspected line sepsis: A ...

DOSE OPTIMIZATION A working knowledge of antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics is required for appropriate antimic ...

values greater than 4mg/mL have led the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute to lower the MRSA vancomycin susceptibility ...

monotherapy for cSSTI and intra-abdominal infections. There are also concerns about emerging resistance. Colistin use is seeing ...

Schuster MG, Edwards JE Jr., Sobel JD, et al. Empirical fluconazole versus placebo for intensive care unit patients. A randomiz ...

27 Antimicrobial Therapy of VRE and MRSA in Critical Care Burke A. Cunha Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospit ...

Staphylococci The most important gram-positive coccal pathogens in critical care are staphylococci and group D enterococci. For ...

portion of the colonic flora is made up of miscellaneous organisms and less than 5% of the group D enterococcal colonic flora,95 ...