The changing pathogens of complicated parapneumonic effusions or empyemas in a medical intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 570-576

  Tu, Chih Yen ^a   Hsu, Wu Huei ^a   Hsia, Te Chun ^a   Chen, Hung Jen ^a   Chiu, Kuo Liang ^a   Hang, Liang Wen ^a   Shih, Chuen Ming ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacteriology; Complicated parapneumonic effusion; Empyema; Intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGY; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 33645105396     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-0064-7     Document Type: Article

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