DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 02 · Volume 32 · April 2011 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-21865 Serious Infections in Intensive Care Units Jean Chastre M.D. Jean-Louis Teboul M.D. Ph.D.

PREFACE

111
Chastre, Jean; Teboul, Jean-Louis: Serious Infections in Intensive Care Units

115
Doyle, Joseph S; Buising, Kirsty L; Thursky, Karin A; Worth, Leon J; Richards, Michael J: Epidemiology of Infections Acquired in Intensive Care Units
139
Timsit, Jean-François; Dubois, Yohann; Minet, Clémence; Bonadona, Agnès; Lugosi, Maxime; Ara-Somohano, Claire; Hamidfar-Roy, Rebecca; Schwebel, Carole: New Challenges in the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Central Venous Catheter–Related Infections
151
Sánchez, Anna; Gattarello, Simone; Rello, Jordi: New Treatment Options for Infections Caused by Multiresistant Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Other Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Bacilli
159
Echeverria, Pablo M; Kett, Daniel H; Azoulay, Elie: Candida Prophylaxis and Therapy in the ICU
174
De Waele, Jan J: Rational Use of Antimicrobials in Patients with Severe Acute Pancreatitis
181
Luyt, Charles-Edouard; Combes, Alain; Trouillet, Jean-Louis; Chastre, Jean: Value of the Serum Procalcitonin Level to Guide Antimicrobial Therapy for Patients with Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
188
Combes, Alain; Pellegrino, Vince: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for 2009 Influenza A (H1N1)-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
195
Levinson, Andrew T; Casserly, Brian P; Levy, Mitchell M: Reducing Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
206
Jozwiak, Mathieu; Persichini, Romain; Monnet, Xavier; Teboul, Jean-Louis: Management of Myocardial Dysfunction in Severe Sepsis
215
Arnold, Heather M; Micek, Scott T; Skrupky, Lee P; Kollef, Marin H: Antibiotic Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit
228
Wiener-Kronish, Jeanine P; Pittet, Jean-Francois: Therapies against Virulence Products of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
236
van Essen, Einar H.R; de Jonge, Evert: Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract (SDD): Is the Game Worth the Candle?