[HTML][HTML] Inhaled amikacin to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia

S Ehrmann, F Barbier, J Demiselle… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Whether preventive inhaled antibiotics may reduce the incidence of ventilator-
associated pneumonia is unclear. Methods In this investigator-initiated, multicenter, double …

ICU-acquired infections in immunocompromised patients

L Kreitmann, J Helms, I Martin-Loeches, J Salluh… - Intensive Care …, 2024 - Springer
Immunocompromised patients account for an increasing proportion of the typical intensive
care unit (ICU) case-mix. Because of the increased availability of new drugs for cancer and …

Dysbiosis of a microbiota–immune metasystem in critical illness is associated with nosocomial infections

J Schlechte, AZ Zucoloto, I Yu, CJ Doig, MJ Dunbar… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Critically ill patients in intensive care units experience profound alterations of their gut
microbiota that have been linked to a high risk of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections …

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 …

Trends in ICU mortality and underlying risk over three decades among mechanically ventilated patients. A group level analysis of cohorts from infection prevention …

JC Hurley - Annals of Intensive Care, 2023 - Springer
Background Has either the underlying risk or the mortality incidence among ICU patients
receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) in the literature changed in recent decades …

Gut microbiota composition during hospitalization is associated with 60-day mortality after severe COVID-19

M Trøseid, JC Holter, K Holm, B Vestad, T Sazonova… - Critical Care, 2023 - Springer
Background Gut microbiota alterations have been reported in hospitalized COVID-19
patients, with reduced alpha diversity and altered microbiota composition related to …

Surviving sepsis after burn campaign

DG Greenhalgh, DM Hill, DM Burmeister, EI Gus… - Burns, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction The Surviving Sepsis Campaign was developed to improve outcomes
for all patients with sepsis. Despite sepsis being the primary cause of death after thermal …

Positive single-center randomized trials and subsequent multicenter randomized trials in critically ill patients: a systematic review

Y Kotani, S Turi, A Ortalda, M Baiardo Redaelli… - Critical Care, 2023 - Springer
Background It is unclear how often survival benefits observed in single-center randomized
controlled trials (sRCTs) involving critically ill patients are confirmed by subsequent …

Empirical antibiotic therapy for sepsis: save the anaerobic microbiota

RFJ Kullberg, BW Haak, R Chanderraj… - The Lancet …, 2025 - thelancet.com
Antibiotics are fundamental in sepsis management; however, the optimal empirical treatment
remains debated. Despite anaerobes rarely being the causative pathogen of sepsis …

Gut microbiome-based therapeutics in critically ill adult patients—a narrative review

S He, F Lin, X Hu, P Pan - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in the human microenvironment. Dysbiosis of the gut
microbiota is a common pathophysiological phenomenon in critically ill patients. Therefore …