Nebulized colistin treatment of multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii pulmonary infection in critical ill patients;Utilización de la colistina nebulizada en la colonización e infecciónrespiratoria por Acinetobacter baumannii en pacientes críticos

Medicina Intensiva

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 226-231

  Perez Pedrero M J ^a   Sanchez Casado M ^a   Rodriguez Villar S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL VIRGEN DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Colistin; Multi resistant germs; Nebulized colistin

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; ERADICATION THERAPY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEBULIZATION; NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AGED; BRONCHITIS; COLISTIN; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEITIS; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 79955715079     PISSN: 02105691     EISSN: 15786749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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