Focus on infection and sepsis in intensive care patients

Impact of Candida spp. isolation in the respiratory tract in patients with intensive care unit-acquired pneumonia

(2016) S. Terraneo et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Procalcitonin (PCT) levels for ruling-out bacterial coinfection in ICU patients with influenza: A CHAID decision-tree analysis

(2016) Alejandro H. Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Antifungal de-escalation was not associated with adverse outcome in critically ill patients treated for invasive candidiasis: post hoc analyses of the AmarCAND2 study data

(2015) Sébastien Bailly et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Outcomes associated with routine systemic antifungal therapy in critically ill patients with Candida colonization

(2015) David Ferreira et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Pros and cons of using biomarkers versus clinical decisions in start and stop decisions for antibiotics in the critical care setting

(2015) Werner C. Albrich et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

A multicenter multinational study of abdominal candidiasis: epidemiology, outcomes and predictors of mortality

(2015) Matteo Bassetti et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

β-d-Glucan and Candida albicans germ tube antibody in ICU patients with invasive candidiasis

(2015) Estrella Martín-Mazuelos et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Resistance patterns and outcomes in intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired pneumonia. Validation of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification of multidrug resistant organisms

(2015) Ignacio Martin-Loeches et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Incidence and prognosis of ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (TAVeM): a multicentre, prospective, observational study

(2015) Ignacio Martin-Loeches et al.   Lancet Respiratory Medicine

What’s new in the clinical and diagnostic management of invasive candidiasis in critically ill patients

(2014) Cristóbal León et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Candida in the respiratory tract secretions of critically ill patients and the impact of antifungal treatment: a randomized placebo controlled pilot trial (CANTREAT study)

(2014) Martin Albert et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Innovations that could improve early recognition of ventilator-associated pneumonia

(2014) Lieuwe D. J. Bos et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

My paper 10 years later: infective endocarditis in the intensive care unit

(2014) Michel Wolff et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Diagnostic accuracy of SeptiFast multi-pathogen real-time PCR in the setting of suspected healthcare-associated bloodstream infection

(2014) Geoffrey Warhurst et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Ventilator-associated pneumonia: present understanding and ongoing debates

(2014) Girish B. Nair et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Accuracy of LightCycler® SeptiFast for the detection and identification of pathogens in the blood of patients with suspected sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2014) Paul Dark et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Epidemiology, antibiotic therapy and clinical outcomes of healthcare-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients: a Spanish cohort study

(2014) Jordi Vallés et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Incidence, characteristics and outcome of ICU-acquired candidemia in India

(2014) Arunaloke Chakrabarti et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Prognostic factors and historical trends in the epidemiology of candidemia in critically ill patients: an analysis of five multicenter studies sequentially conducted over a 9-year period

(2014) Arnaldo L. Colombo et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE