Impact of intracranial pressure monitor prophylaxis on central nervous system infections and bacterial multi-drug resistance

Surgical Infections

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 503-508

  Stoikes, Nathaniel F ^a   Magnotti, Louis J ^a   Hodges, Timothy M ^a   Weinberg, Jordan A ^a   Schroeppel, Thomas J ^a   Savage, Stephanie A ^a   Fischer, Peter E ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55549086190     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2007.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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