Erschienen in:
29.09.2016 | Focus Editorial
Focus on adequate antimicrobial treatment and de-escalation in the ICU
verfasst von:
Dominique D. Benoit, Gordon Doig, Jean-Francois Timsit
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2016
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Excerpt
Adequate antimicrobial treatment is considered of upmost importance to reduce mortality in critically ill patients with infection. However, because of the dramatic increase of antibiotic resistance worldwide [
1,
2] and the delay in microbiological identification of pathogens, adequate antibiotic treatment is more easy to define retrospectively on chart review than to implement prospectively at the bedside. Several articles recently published in
Intensive Care Medicine have provided some clues in how to improve adequate antimicrobial treatment in daily practice. …