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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2014
Multicenter Study Observational StudyTigecycline use in critically ill patients: a multicentre prospective observational study in the intensive care setting.
- Philippe Montravers, Hervé Dupont, Jean-Pierre Bedos, Philippe Bret, and Tigecycline Group.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital Center, Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris-Cité and AP-HP, 46 Rue Henri-Huchard, 75018, Paris, France, philippe.montravers@bch.aphp.fr.
- Intensive Care Med. 2014 Jul 1; 40 (7): 988-97.
PurposeThis prospective observational study aimed at describing prescription patterns of tigecycline and patient outcomes in 26 French intensive care units (ICU).MethodsData of consecutive cases of adult patients treated with tigecycline were collected from the initiation until 7 days after the end of treatment. Response to treatment was classified as success, failure or undetermined and analyses were presented according to severity (SOFA score <7 or ≥7). Survival was recorded at 28 days.ResultsA total of 156 patients were included (64% male, age 60 ± 15 years). At inclusion, 53% had a SOFA score ≥7; 93% had received prior anti-infective agents. Tigecycline was given as first-line treatment in 47% of patients, mostly in combination (67%), for intra-abdominal (IAI 56%), skin and soft tissue (SSTI 19%) or other infections. A total of 76% of the treated infections were hospital-acquired. Bacteraemia was reported in 12% of patients. Median treatment duration was 9 days. Tigecycline was prematurely stopped in 42% patients. The global success rate was 60% at the end of treatment, and significantly higher with treatment duration more than 9 days (76 vs. 47%, P < 0.001). Success rate was 65% for patients alive at the end of treatment. Success rates tended to decrease with illness severity, immunosuppression, bacteraemia and obesity. Survival rate at day 28 was 85% in the whole cohort and significantly higher in the less severely ill patients (P < 0.001).ConclusionsTigecycline success rates appear comparable to those reported in clinical studies in ICU with severe infections. Tigecycline could be an alternative in ICU patients.
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