Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress 2023 EHA Congress 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on sleep in brain health

LIVE: Thursday 2nd May 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)

Quality sleep is essential for health. But what happens to our brains when sleep patterns are disturbed? Join our experts to explore the interplay between sleep disruption and neurological diseases, and the questions that you need to be asking your patients to help you prevent the harmful effects of sleep deprivation.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Critical Care
Published in: Critical Care 5/2010

01-10-2010 | Letter

Beta-lactam antibiotics in continuous infusion in critically ill patients

Authors: Axel Jeurissen, Robert Rutsaert

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 5/2010

Login to get access

Excerpt

We read with great interest Taccone and colleagues' article [1], published in a recent issue of Critical Care, on the insufficient β-lactam concentrations in the early phase of severe sepsis and septic shock. While we fully agree with the authors' findings, we would like to offer some remarks. …
Literature
1.
Taccone FS, Laterre PF, Dugernier T, Spapen H, Delattre I, Witebolle X, De Backer D, Layeux B, Wallemacq P, Vincent JL, Jacobs F: Insufficient β-lactam concentrations in the early phase of severe sepsis and septic shock. Crit Care. 2010, 14: R126-10.1186/cc9091.PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed
2.
Vincent JL, Rello J, Marshal J, Eliezer S, Anzueto A, Martin CD, Moreno R, Lipman J, Gomersall C, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, for the EPIC II Group of Investigators: International study of the prevalence and outcomes of infection in intensive care units. JAMA. 2009, 302: 2323-2329. 10.1001/jama.2009.1754.CrossRefPubMed
3.
Belgian Isepamycin Multicentre Group: Comparative in vitro activity of isepamycin and other antibiotics against gram-negative bacilli from intensive care units (ICU) in Belgium. Acta Clin Belg. 2001, 56: 307-315.CrossRef
4.
Roberts JA, Lipman J, Blot S, Rello J: Better outcomes through continuous infusion of time-dependent antibiotics to critically ill patients?. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2008, 14: 390-396. 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3283021b3a.CrossRefPubMed
5.
Page MG, Heim J: Prospects for the next anti-Pseudomonas drug. Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2009, 9: 558-565. 10.1016/j.coph.2009.08.006.CrossRefPubMed
6.
Riou M, Carbonnelle S, Avrain L, Mesaros N, Pirnay JP, Bilocq F, De Vos D, Simon A, Piérard D, Jacobs F, Dediste A, Tulkens P, Van Bambeke F, Glupczynski Y: In vivo development of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosastrains isolated from the lower respiratory tract of intensive care unit patients with nosocomial pneumonia and receiving antipseudomonal therapy. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2010,
7.
Lorente L, Jiménez A, Palmero S, Jiménez JJ, Iribarren JL, Santana M, Martin MM, Mora ML: Comparison of clinical cure rates in adults with ventilator-associated pneumonia treated with intravenous ceftazidime administrated by continuous or intermittent infusion: a retrospective, nonrandomized, open-label, historical chart review. Clin Ther. 2007, 29: 2433-2439. 10.1016/j.clinthera.2007.11.003.CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Beta-lactam antibiotics in continuous infusion in critically ill patients
Authors
Axel Jeurissen
Robert Rutsaert
Publication date
01-10-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 5/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9288

Other articles of this Issue 5/2010

Critical Care 5/2010 Go to the issue

Review

Bench-to-bedside review: Circulating microparticles - a new player in sepsis?

Commentary

Tranexamic acid in cardiac surgery: is there a cause for concern?

Erratum

Erratum to: A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes

Letter

Delirium and mortality risk prediction: a story in evolution

Commentary

Further cautions for the use of ventilatory-induced changes in arterial pressures to predict volume responsiveness

Research

Hyperoncotic colloids and acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis of randomized trials