DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 02 · Volume 32 · April 2011 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-21865 Serious Infections in Intensive Care Units Jean Chastre M.D. Jean-Louis Teboul M.D. Ph.D.

PREFACE

  • 111
    Chastre, Jean; Teboul, Jean-Louis:

    Serious Infections in Intensive Care Units

  • 115
    Doyle, Joseph S; Buising, Kirsty L; Thursky, Karin A; Worth, Leon J; Richards, Michael J:

    Epidemiology of Infections Acquired in Intensive Care Units

  • 139
    Timsit, Jean-François; Dubois, Yohann; Minet, Clémence; Bonadona, Agnès; Lugosi, Maxime; Ara-Somohano, Claire; Hamidfar-Roy, Rebecca; Schwebel, Carole:

    New Challenges in the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Central Venous Catheter–Related Infections

  • 151
    Sánchez, Anna; Gattarello, Simone; Rello, Jordi:

    New Treatment Options for Infections Caused by Multiresistant Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Other Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Bacilli

  • 159
    Echeverria, Pablo M; Kett, Daniel H; Azoulay, Elie:

    Candida Prophylaxis and Therapy in the ICU

  • 174
    De Waele, Jan J:

    Rational Use of Antimicrobials in Patients with Severe Acute Pancreatitis

  • 181
    Luyt, Charles-Edouard; Combes, Alain; Trouillet, Jean-Louis; Chastre, Jean:

    Value of the Serum Procalcitonin Level to Guide Antimicrobial Therapy for Patients with Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

  • 188
    Combes, Alain; Pellegrino, Vince:

    Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for 2009 Influenza A (H1N1)-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

  • 195
    Levinson, Andrew T; Casserly, Brian P; Levy, Mitchell M:

    Reducing Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

  • 206
    Jozwiak, Mathieu; Persichini, Romain; Monnet, Xavier; Teboul, Jean-Louis:

    Management of Myocardial Dysfunction in Severe Sepsis

  • 215
    Arnold, Heather M; Micek, Scott T; Skrupky, Lee P; Kollef, Marin H:

    Antibiotic Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit

  • 228
    Wiener-Kronish, Jeanine P; Pittet, Jean-Francois:

    Therapies against Virulence Products of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • 236
    van Essen, Einar H.R; de Jonge, Evert:

    Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract (SDD): Is the Game Worth the Candle?