Ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults: a narrative review

L Papazian, M Klompas, CE Luyt - Intensive care medicine, 2020 - Springer
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most frequent ICU-acquired infections.
Reported incidences vary widely from 5 to 40% depending on the setting and diagnostic …

Rescuing the last-line polymyxins: achievements and challenges

SC Nang, MAK Azad, T Velkov, QT Zhou, J Li… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is a major global health challenge and, worryingly, several key Gram
negative pathogens can become resistant to most currently available antibiotics. Polymyxins …

International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia: Guidelines for the …

A Torres, MS Niederman, J Chastre… - European …, 2017 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The most recent European guidelines and task force reports on hospital-acquired
pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) were published almost 10 …

Aminoglycosides: an overview

KM Krause, AW Serio, TR Kane… - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Aminoglycosides are natural or semisynthetic antibiotics derived from actinomycetes. They
were among the first antibiotics to be introduced for routine clinical use and several …

Trends in human fecal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamases in the community: toward the globalization of CTX-M

PL Woerther, C Burdet, E Chachaty… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
In the last 10 years, extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing enterobacteria (ESBL-E)
have become one of the main challenges for antibiotic treatment of enterobacterial …

Bacterial and fungal infections in acute-on-chronic liver failure: prevalence, characteristics and impact on prognosis

J Fernández, J Acevedo, R Wiest, T Gustot, A Amoros… - Gut, 2018 - gut.bmj.com
Bacterial infection is a frequent trigger of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), syndrome
that could also increase the risk of infection. This investigation evaluated prevalence and …

Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

M Klompas, R Branson, EC Eichenwald… - Infection Control & …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive
recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The …

Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacilli

É Ruppé, PL Woerther, F Barbier - Annals of intensive care, 2015 - Springer
The burden of multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) now represents a daily
issue for the management of antimicrobial therapy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. In …

Association between selective decontamination of the digestive tract and in-hospital mortality in intensive care unit patients receiving mechanical ventilation: a …

NE Hammond, J Myburgh, I Seppelt, T Garside, R Vlok… - Jama, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The effectiveness of selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) in
critically ill adults receiving mechanical ventilation is uncertain. Objective To determine …

Antibiotic resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: mechanisms and clinical implications

J Iredell, J Brown, K Tagg - Bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Resistance of the Enterobacteriaceae to antibiotics, especially of the β lactam type, is
increasingly dominated by the mobilization of continuously expressed single genes that …