Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Nov 2022
Multicenter Study Observational StudyPoor timing and failure of source control are risk factors for mortality in critically ill patients with secondary peritonitis.
To describe data on epidemiology, microbiology, clinical characteristics and outcome of adult patients admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) with secondary peritonitis, with special emphasis on antimicrobial therapy and source control. ⋯ 'Urgent' and successful source control was associated with improved odds of survival. Appropriateness of empirical antimicrobial treatment did not significantly affect survival suggesting that source control is more determinative for outcome.