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16-05-2024 | Clindamycin | Editorial

Treating necrotizing skin and soft-tissue infections

Authors: Philippe Montravers, Anna Norrby-Teglund, Patricia Munoz

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 8/2024

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Among skin and soft-tissue infections, necrotizing skin and soft-tissue infections (NSTIs) are by far the most frequent and the most severe cases admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Timely and adequate surgical and medical care are the only modifiable features in their management [1]. The heterogeneity of patients, including varying comorbidities, clinical presentations, causative microbes and treatments, requires a team approach involving multidisciplinary management [2, 3]. …

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Title: Treating necrotizing skin and soft-tissue infections
Authors: Philippe Montravers
Anna Norrby-Teglund
Patricia Munoz
Publication date: 16-05-2024
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Clindamycin
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 8/2024
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-024-07466-9

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