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Infections in the Intensive Care Unit

After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Understand the pathophysiology of specific infections in the ICU. Identify infectious complications in critically ill patients. Conduct appropriate diagnostic work-up for infections encountered in the ICU. Develop a systematic approach for managing...

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Autores principales: Rosenzweig, Jaclyn, Rossini, Gregory J., Samuel, Rafik, Chatila, Wissam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122383/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77452-7_32
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description After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Understand the pathophysiology of specific infections in the ICU. Identify infectious complications in critically ill patients. Conduct appropriate diagnostic work-up for infections encountered in the ICU. Develop a systematic approach for managing ICU-related infections. Execute effective measures to prevent infectious complications in the ICU. Understand how to effectively work up and treat patients with sepsis. Choose the appropriate antimicrobial regimen for either empiric or culture-focused treatment of ICU infections.
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spelling pubmed-71223832020-04-06 Infections in the Intensive Care Unit Rosenzweig, Jaclyn Rossini, Gregory J. Samuel, Rafik Chatila, Wissam Critical Care Study Guide Article After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Understand the pathophysiology of specific infections in the ICU. Identify infectious complications in critically ill patients. Conduct appropriate diagnostic work-up for infections encountered in the ICU. Develop a systematic approach for managing ICU-related infections. Execute effective measures to prevent infectious complications in the ICU. Understand how to effectively work up and treat patients with sepsis. Choose the appropriate antimicrobial regimen for either empiric or culture-focused treatment of ICU infections. 2009-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7122383/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77452-7_32 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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