Infection & chemotherapy
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Infection & chemotherapy · Jun 2013
ReviewThe Meaning of Information Technology (IT) Mobile Devices to Me, the Infectious Disease Physician.
The devolopment of mobile devices such as smartphone or tablet has revolutionized our quality and way of life. As a specialist of infectious diseases, various aspects of information technology on our professional fields were reviewed and lots of useful medical applications were also presented in this review.
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Infection & chemotherapy · Jun 2013
Blood stream infections in patients in the burn intensive care unit.
The study on bacteremia helps empirically select the proper antibiotics before the results of culture test about causative pathogen. The purpose of this study is to investigate causative pathogen in bloodstream infection, changing aspects based on elapsed time after burn, relationship with other sites and resistance of important causative pathogen against antibiotics through analysis on bacteria isolated from blood culture of patients hospitalized in burn intensive care unit (BICU). ⋯ Since the highly antibiotic resistant microorganisms were isolated from the patients hospitalized in BICU during early phase, the empirical selection of antibiotics targeting these pathogens should be considered before the results of microbiologic culture test. In addition, use of empirical antifungal agent after 1 week of injury can be considered for patients who have risk factor of fungal infection.