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- Lara Zafrani and Elie Azoulay.
- AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Medical ICU, Groupe de Recherche Respiratoire en Réanimation Onco-Hématologique (Grrr-OH), Paris, France. elie.azoulay@sls.aphp.fr.
- Bmc Infect Dis. 2014 Jan 1;14:512.
AbstractSevere infections in neutropenic patient often progress rapidly leading to life-threatening organ dysfunction requiring admission to the Intensive Care Unit. Management strategies include early adequate appropriate empirical antimicrobial, early admission to ICU to avoid any delay in the diagnostic and therapeutic management of organ dysfunction. This review discusses the main clinical situations encountered in critically ill neutropenic patients. Specific diagnostic and therapeutic approaches have been proposed for acute respiratory failure, shock, neutropenic enterocolitis, catheter-related infections, cellulitis and primary bacteriemia. Non anti-infectious agents and recent advances will also be discussed. At present, most of large-scale studies and recommendations in neutropenic patients stem from hematological patients and will need further validation in ICU patients.
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