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01-04-2020 | Antibiotic | Less is more in Intensive Care

Less empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics is more in the ICU

Authors: Jose Mauro da Fonseca Pestana Ribeiro, Marcelo Park

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2020

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Antibiotics are administered in approximately 71% of patients who are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and have helped to save millions of lives [1]. However, up to half of all antibiotic prescriptions may be unnecessary [2]. Antibiotic overuse has contributed to alarmingly high levels of global antibiotic resistance, which is increasing at a rate faster than that at which novel antibiotics are produced. Therefore, finding a fine balance between the appropriate use and avoidance of unnecessary administration is crucial to prevent the renaissance of a new world without antibiotics [2]. …

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Title: Less empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics is more in the ICU
Authors: Jose Mauro da Fonseca Pestana Ribeiro
Marcelo Park
Publication date: 01-04-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Antibiotic
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05863-z

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