The golden hour of antibiotic administration in severe sepsis: Avoid a false start striving for gold

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1931-1932

  Van Zanten, Arthur R H ^a  

^a GELDERSE VALLEI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

antibiotics; appropriateness; mortality; sepsis; timing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84904675580     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000363     Document Type: Editorial

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