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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2020

01-12-2020 | Pneumonia | Narrative Review

Pulmonary infections complicating ARDS

Authors: Charles-Edouard Luyt, Lila Bouadma, Andrew Conway Morris, Jayesh A. Dhanani, Marin Kollef, Jeffrey Lipman, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Saad Nseir, Otavio T. Ranzani, Antoine Roquilly, Matthieu Schmidt, Antoni Torres, Jean-François Timsit

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2020

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Abstract

Pulmonary infection is one of the main complications occurring in patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Besides traditional risk factors, dysregulation of lung immune defenses and microbiota may play an important role in ARDS patients. Prone positioning does not seem to be associated with a higher risk of pulmonary infection. Although bacteria associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in ARDS patients are similar to those in patients without ARDS, atypical pathogens (Aspergillus, herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus) may also be responsible for infection in ARDS patients. Diagnosing pulmonary infection in ARDS patients is challenging, and requires a combination of clinical, biological and microbiological criteria. The role of modern tools (e.g., molecular methods, metagenomic sequencing, etc.) remains to be evaluated in this setting. One of the challenges of antimicrobial treatment is antibiotics diffusion into the lungs. Although targeted delivery of antibiotics using nebulization may be interesting, their place in ARDS patients remains to be explored. The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the most severe patients is associated with a high rate of infection and raises several challenges, diagnostic issues and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics changes being at the top. Prevention of pulmonary infection is a key issue in ARDS patients, but there is no specific measure for these high-risk patients. Reinforcing preventive measures using bundles seems to be the best option.
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Metadata
Title
Pulmonary infections complicating ARDS
Authors
Charles-Edouard Luyt
Lila Bouadma
Andrew Conway Morris
Jayesh A. Dhanani
Marin Kollef
Jeffrey Lipman
Ignacio Martin-Loeches
Saad Nseir
Otavio T. Ranzani
Antoine Roquilly
Matthieu Schmidt
Antoni Torres
Jean-François Timsit
Publication date
01-12-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06292-z

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