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Ethics roundtable debate: A patient dies from an ICU-acquired infection related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – how do you defend your case and your team?

An elderly patient dies from septic shock in the intensive care unit. This is perhaps not an unusual scenario, but in this case the sepsis happens to have been due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, possibly related to a catheter, and possibly transmitted from a patient in a neighbourin...

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Autores principales: Vincent, Jean-Louis, Brun-Buisson, Christian, Niederman, Michael, Haenni, Christian, Harbarth, Stephan, Sprumont, Dominique, Valencia, Mauricio, Torres, Antoni
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1065110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15693971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3016