Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

CONCLUSION The incidence of penicillin allergy in the general population has been estimated to be between 1% and 10%, but no goo ...

Thethi AK, Van Dellen RG. Dilemmas and controversies in penicillin allergy. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 2004; 24:445–461. Wei ...

31 Adverse Reactions to Antibiotics in Critical Care Eric V. Granowitz and Richard B. Brown Infectious Disease Division, Baystat ...

Table 1 Frequency and Severity of Adverse Reactions to Antibiotics Penicillins Cephalosporins Monobactams Carbapenems Aminoglyco ...

ANAPHYLAXIS Anaphylaxis is an acute hypersensitivity reaction that can result in immediate urticaria, laryngospasm, bronchospasm ...

and amphotericins are the prototypical classes associated with acute renal failure; the availability of drugs with similar spect ...

HEMATOLOGICAL ADVERSE REACTIONS Anemia Linezolid (38–40), amphotericin B, chloramphenicol, and ganciclovir cause anemia by suppr ...

It should be suspected in patients with bleeding not accounted for by abnormalities in INR or partial thromboplastin time, and o ...

vancomycin and who continue to have red man syndrome despite slow administration of the drug (63,66). A particularly difficult p ...

and confusion have been noted; these generally resolve rapidly once the offending agent is discontinued. The presence of an unde ...

FEVER Best available data suggest that up to one-third of hospitalized patients will experience fevers (93) that are commonly no ...

In ICU patients with abdominal pain, work-up forC. difficilecolitis should ideally be performed prior to abdominal surgery. Diag ...

Idsoe O, Guthe T, Wilcox RR, et al. Nature and extent of penicillin side-reactions with particular reference to fatalities from ...

Birmingham MC, Rayner CR, Meagher AK, et al. Linezolid for the treatment of multidrug resistant, gram-positive infections: expe ...

Ress BD, Gross EM. Irreversible sensorineural hearing loss as a result of azithromycin ototoxicity: a case report. Ann Otol Rhi ...

Triadafilopoulos G, Hallstone AE. Acute abdomen as the first presentation of pseudomembranous colitis. Gastroenterology 1991; 1 ...

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Index Abatacept, 379 Abdominal compartment syndrome, 268 Abdominal infections and mimic acute pyelonephritis.SeeAcute pyelonephr ...

Antibiotic-associated diarrhea, 271, 550–551 defined, 277 Antibiotic resistance, 513 Antibiotic-resistant superinfections, 551 A ...

Aztreonam, 544 in trauma patients, 529 Babesia microti, 352 Babesiosis, 352 Bacillus atrophaeus, 466 Bacitracin, 283 Bacteremia, ...