[PDF] Top 20 Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy for septic patients in the surgical intensive care unit

... of antibiotic ther- apy based upon serial procalcitonin levels and discon- tinuation of antibiotics when the procalcitonin level dropped below a pre-determined cutoff ...of procalcitonin in ... See full document

... a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) of a 1000-bed tertiary referral university ...adult patients admitted to the ICU were enrolled in this prospective observational study when they ... See full document

... However, antibiotic synergy has been shown to be valuable only in vitro and in patients with neutropenia, bacteremia, or a greater than 25% probability of death ...bined therapy showed its benefit to ... See full document

... should be addressed. First, PCT was not monitored every day, and a shorter monitoring interval may improve its perfor- mance as an aid for diagnosis and follow up of sepsis. Second, with the use of clinical criteria and ... See full document

... guidelines, antibiotic de-escalation in culture-negative patients is not being adequately ...in septic patients is one of the known challenges of antibiotic ... See full document

... in patients with infections in general [6,7], respiratory tract infections [8,9], or patients treated in the ICU ...different patients in different settings with different treatment ...ill ... See full document

... biotic therapy can be optimized and shortened in surgical intensive care patients as well with daily PCT ...a surgical intensive care ...15-day antibiotic ... See full document

... of antibiotic therapy in septic ICU patients decreased after implementation of a PCT proto- col [13], and combination with an antibiotic stewardship programme had positive impact on ... See full document

... tailoring antibiotic therapy in septic ICU individuals ...of patients (n=79) of a mixed ICU population and it remains unclear how many surgical patients were ...621 septic ... See full document

... appropriate antibiotic treatment remains the cornerstone of sepsis care ...of patients is of the utmost importance to identify pa- tients with a favorable disease course who are at low risk for ... See full document

... based antibiotic initiation strategy because we found only three RCT through the literature search [13, 30, ...the antibiotic consummation ...the antibiotic treatment, and the relative low proportion ... See full document

... emergence of the first plasmid-mediated polymyxin resistance mechanism, MCR-1, in Enterobacteriaceae in China [20]. This is especially worrisome because plas- mid-mediated resistance can spread in an explosive man- ner ... See full document

... replacement therapy on fi rst day, and Elixhauser comorbidity index (SID30); (2) model 2, the same as model 1, but Elixhauser comorbidity index (SID30) was replaced with speci fi c comorbidities, includ- ing ... See full document

... Early diagnosis and prompt antimicrobial therapy is crucial in the treatment of sepsis for saving lives. Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that affect all organs. Hence, host responses ... See full document

... of patients with documented falls, use of physi- cal restraints, injuries such as pulling out IV lines or urinary catheters, any ordered or observed re-intubation, and pressure ... See full document

... ing intermittent sampling of air in a NO treatment room did not exceed 1 ppm; however, grab samples of this type cannot be assumed to be representative of personal exposure. The primary objective of this study was to ... See full document

... the patients who had clamp operations after percutaneous coronary intervention, andshowed that the average oxygen saturation levels of the patients in the test group were statistically higher than those of ... See full document

... for septic shock (Kumar et ...for patients receiving antibiotic therapy after evidence of hypotension was 58% (Kumar et ...in antibiotic therapy during the first 6 hours after ... See full document

... All patients suffered peritoneal dialysis, one patient a ...the patients received 100–200 U/day PC. Results All of the patients showed signs of disseminated intravascular ...the therapy with ... See full document

... male patients), parkinsonism (more in old females), and tardive dyskinesia (in patients who receive first-generation antipsychotic for a long period of ... See full document