Impact of the resin blood culture medium on the treatment of critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 797-801

  Levin, Phillip D ^a   Yinnon, Amos M ^a   Hersch, Moshe ^a   Rudensky, Bernard ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

bacteremia; bacteriological techniques; critical illness; culture media; intensive care unit; microbiological techniques; Pseudomonas aerurginosa; septicemia; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RESIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESINS, PLANT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 0029948834     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199605000-00012     Document Type: Article

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