Erschienen in:
09.10.2020 | Less is more in Intensive Care
Less is more: critically ill status is not a carte blanche for unlimited antibiotic use
verfasst von:
Andre C. Kalil, Jean-Francois Timsit
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 11/2020
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Excerpt
The film “Blade Runner 2049” depicts a bleak view of humanity 30 years from now, a world in which survival will be much more difficult than today. You may say we are lucky that it is only 2020; however, we are already facing a growing and unstoppable shortage of antibiotics worldwide due to bacterial resistance, and this could end up in a humanitarian disaster. The CDC recently reported that the pace of antibiotic-resistant infections and its associated mortality are on the rise [
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