Diagnostic accuracy of protected specimen brush and bronchoalveolar lavage in nosocomial pneumonia: Impact of previous antimicrobial treatments

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 236-244

  Souweine, Bertrand ^a,b   Veber, Benoit ^a   Bedos, Jean Pierre ^a   Gachot, Bertrand ^a   Dombret, Marie Christine ^a   Regnier, Bernard ^a   Wolff, Michel ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Critical illness; Diagnostic tests; Intensive care unit; Intracellular organism; Mechanical ventilation; Nosocomial; Pneumonia; Previous antibiotics; Protected specimen brush; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; OXACILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031942603     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199802000-00017     Document Type: Article

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