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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 11/2017

01-11-2017 | Editorial

Therapeutic targets in necrotizing soft tissue infections

Authors: Nicolas de Prost, Jeffrey Lipman, Olivier Mimoz

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 11/2017

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Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) are rare and life-threatening bacterial infections characterized by an extensive necrosis of skin and subcutaneous tissues. Necrotizing fasciitis (necrosis of fascial planes), however, is less objective as a separate entity and it is possibly better to lump all severe soft tissue infections into the overall label of NSTIs, as the treatment of all is similar (antibiotics, early extensive surgery and supportive care are the mainstay of all NSTIs; see later). …
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Metadata
Title
Therapeutic targets in necrotizing soft tissue infections
Authors
Nicolas de Prost
Jeffrey Lipman
Olivier Mimoz
Publication date
01-11-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4813-1

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