Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Dec 2019
Correction to: Intensive care unit length of stay is reduced by protocolized family support intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. One of the affiliations was incorrect: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans Health Service Medical Center, Portland, USA.
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Intensive care medicine · Dec 2019
The association of cardiovascular failure with treatment for ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infection.
Ventilator associated-lower respiratory tract infections (VA-LRTIs), either ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) or tracheobronchitis (VAT), accounts for most nosocomial infections in intensive care units (ICU) including. Our aim was to determine if appropriate antibiotic treatment in patients with VA-LRTI will effectively reduce mortality in patients who had cardiovascular failure. ⋯ Patients with VA-LRTI and cardiovascular failure did not show an association to a higher ICU survival with appropriate antibiotic treatment. Additionally, we found that in patients without cardiovascular failure, appropriate antibiotic treatment conferred a survival benefit for patients only with VAP.