Bacterial bloodstream infections in critical patients;Bacteriemia en el paciente crítico

Medicina Intensiva

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 336-345

  Sabatier, C ^a   Peredo, R ^a   Valles J ^a  

^a PARC TAULÍ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial bloodstream infection; Critical patient; ICU

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOXACILLIN; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METICILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KLEBSIELLA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BACTEREMIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349422107     PISSN: 02105691     EISSN: 15786749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2008.08.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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