Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

many cases diagnostic certainty is not achieved solely through imaging, but in combination with pertinent clinical and laborator ...

Kawamoto S, Horton KM, Fishman EK. Pseudomembranous colitis: spectrum of imaging findings with clinical and pathologic correlat ...

6 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus/Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Colonization and Infection in the Critical Care U ...

easier to treat. Infections at other body sites are difficult to document, because VRE isolated from other sites frequently repr ...

Types of Infections Caused by MRSA Infections Caused by HA-MRSA Adult ICUs.Bacteremia and pneumonia are the most common HA-MRSA ...

11.7% for cumulative incidence (43,60) and between 7.9 and 9.9 per 1000 patient days for incidence density (61,62). In one study ...

HA-MRSA also appear to have an advantage over MSSA in colonizing patients after transmission (74). During an epidemic of HA-MRSA ...

Epidemiology of CA-MRSA Adult ICUs.Outbreaks of CA-MRSA infections have been described in hospitals in Australia, and CA-MRSA ha ...

Prevention and Control of MRSA in ICUs Prevention of MRSA transmission and control of ongoing dissemination among patients recei ...

have been suboptimal for many years, and efforts to improve them have had little impact on compliance rates, which average about ...

and the simultaneous administration of other oral antimicrobial agents. The strengths included eradication of gastrointestinal c ...

Table 3 Control Measures for MRSA in ICUs Measure Comments Culture all patients on admission and weekly while in the ICU until t ...

ongoing MRSA carriage prevalence in admitted patients of 4%, the authors were able to reduce the incidence of ICU-acquired MRSA ...

Neonatal ICUs As in adults, neonates may also develop serious infections caused by VRE (132–134). The most common infection is b ...

acquisition, it is important to determine the exact time of colonization or infection by VRE, to use controls that are negative ...

Table 5 Risk Factors for Acquisition of VRE from Studies in ICUs Publications Type of ICU Risk Factors Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% ...

Prevention and Control of VRE in ICUs Although less data were available 14 years ago on the epidemiology and control of VRE, rec ...

Decontamination of the Environment That VRE can remain viable on inanimate surfaces from seven days to two months has already be ...

several studies have failed to identify vancomycin as a risk factor (148,149,152,154). The HICPAC recommendations included a lis ...

all concluded that effective VRE control with a reduction in infections caused by VRE is cost- effective (187–190). In three of ...