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Filter by:This multi-center observational case-control study in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients is to identify novel biomarkers allowing to recognize severe community acquired pneumonia (sCAP) -associated sepsis at an earlier stage and predict sepsis-related mortality. Patients with sCAP (cases) will be profoundly characterized over time regarding the development of sepsis and compared with control patients. The mechanisms and influencing factors on the clinical course will be explored with most modern -omics technologies allowing a detailed characterisation. These data will be analysed using machine learning algorithms and multi-dimensional mathematical models.
Septicaemia is a potential complication of nasogastric (NG) tube feeding contamination (Leanne, 2014; Anderton, 2000) and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in residential care home for elders ( RCHEs) (Leanne, 2014). Although health workers (HWs) and personal care workers (PCWs) are responsible for NG tube feeding and direct care to the residents who are fed by NG tube feeding under supervision of registered nurses (RNs) and enrolled nurses (ENs) in RCHEs, HWs and PCWs unfortunately receive limited training regarding infection control (Ho et al., 2012; NICE, 2012; Duckro et al., 2009; Bankhead et al., 2009). A multimodal ICP could reduce the incidence of NG tube feeding contamination by improving the knowledge and skills of RCHE staff members regarding NG tube feeding (Ho et al., 2012). However, because the intervention described by Ho et al. (2012) was not administered in a randomised manner, potential confounders that could affect the outcomes of interest were not adjusted. To overcome that limitation, the proposed work will establish a well-designed multimodal ICP and explore the effectiveness of this intervention in terms of enhancing the knowledge and skills regarding NG tube feeding of RCHE staff members and consequently reducing NG tube feeding contamination after adjusting for potentially important baseline factors. The proposed research objectives are as follows: 1. To explore the effectiveness of a multimodal ICP for reducing bacterial contamination, as measured by the total bacterial counts on NG tube hubs and fingertips on both hands of RCHEs staff, as well as in enteral milk; and 2. To investigate the effectiveness of a multimodal ICP for improving the knowledge and skills of RCHEs staff members regarding infection control measures during NG tube feeding in RCHEs setting.
Amoxicillin is the most prescribed antibiotic in France. High dose intravenous amoxicillin, (dosage greater than or equal to 150 mg / kg / day or 12 g per day for patients over 80 kg) is used in the treatment, in particular, of infectious streptococcal endocarditis. oral, streptococci gallolyticus and enterococci, infections of the central nervous system with sensitive germs including Streptococcus pneumoniae and Listeria monocytogenes, osteo articular infections. The dose-related adverse effects of this antibiotic are nephrological (crystalluria may lead to acute renal failure) and neurologic. Recently, the number of amoxicillin crystalluria reported to pharmacovigilance centers has increased, having led the National Agency of drug and health products safety (ANSM) to recommend the determination of the residual level of amoxicillin during the first week of treatment of these patients. Nevertheless, there is no precise therapeutic target in patients treated with high dose amoxicillin except in the context of critical care. The authors suggest the interest of a target between 4 and 10 times the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) based on in vitro efficacy studies, and retrospective observations of toxicity cases.
Among 300 women that are scheduled a therapeutic abortion screening diagnopsis of BV are done using Gram stained vaginal smear and with a molecular test using PCR for 5 different bacteria.
Treatment of BV with first deqularum cloride and then followed with clindamycin vaginal Cream.
Background Prospective review and feedback (PRF) of antibiotic prescriptions is a labor-intensive core strategy of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS). The investigators hypothesized that a computerized decision support system (CDSS) providing recommendations for antibiotics, investigations and referrals would reduce the requirement for PRF without causing harm. Methods A parallel-group, 1:1 block-cluster randomized, cross-over study was conducted in 32 medical and surgical wards from March to August 2017. The intervention arm comprised voluntary use of CDSS at first prescription of piperacillin-tazobactam or a carbapenem, while the control arm was compulsory CDSS. PRF was continued for both arms. Primary outcome was 30-day mortality.
Therapeutic drug monitoring of antiinfectives in intensive care patients is an usual research topic of the last years. Based on research result, which have shown subtherapeutic plasma concentrations of antibiotics, a routines therapeutic drug monitoring for β-lactam-antibiotics was implemented in January 2018 at Clinic for Anesthesiology at University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany. This study is an prospective evaluation of these TDM-program.
This study aims to assess whether ertapenem as an empiric treatment of third-generation-cephalosporin resistant Enterobacteriaceae (3GCRE) bacteremia is non-inferior to other carbapenems in term of 30-day mortality.
Among enterobacteria, the production of ESBL is the first cause of multidrug resistance. The first cases of ESBL-producing enterobacteriaceae (EBLSE) infections were described during the 1980s and subsequently experienced global spread. Since the beginning of the century, the prevalence of EBLSE infections, especially among E. coli and K. pneumoniae, has increased dramatically. The emergence of multidrug-resistant enterobacteria is currently posing a real public health problem. The European antimicrobial resistance surveillance network evaluated, among clinical strains, the resistance rate for 3rd generation cephalosporins (C3G) at 9.5% for Escherichia coli and 28% for Klebsiella pneumoniae. The consequences of multidrug-resistant enterobacterial infections, which are mainly represented by ESBLs, are currently well known, both from the individual point of view (increase in mortality and length of hospital stay) and collective (increase of costs of care). Data from the literature reveal an increased risk of ESBL bacteremia in patients with rectal carriage of ESBL-producing enterobacteria. The study by Goulenok et al. found as a risk factor for EBLSE bacteremia in patients known to be carriers at the rectal level the existence of antibiotic selection pressure and the presence of a urinary catheter. Woerther et al. have explained in their work that the digestive microbiota confers resistance to colonization by BMR. The impact of antibiotics on the latter leads to a probable rupture of this barrier and a loss of this resistance to colonization. In addition, each antibiotherapy does not impact the digestive microbiota equally and it seems that antibiotics with high anti-anaerobic activity or high biliary elimination are the most impacting. It is therefore essential, at a time of multidrug resistance, to focus on the influence of antibiotics on the digestive microbiota and the emergence and carriage of BMR. Ceftriaxone and cefotaxime are two injectable injectable third-generation cephalosporins (C3G) commonly used in clinical practice. Despite their similar spectrum of action, it should be noted that they have substantially different pharmacokinetic properties, especially with regard to their half-life and their elimination routes (mainly urinary for cefotaxime, mixed: biliary and urinary for ceftriaxone). Some works have already been interested in this topic. Grohs et al. carried out a comparative study between ceftriaxone and cefotaxime on the emergence of AmpC hyperproducing enterobacteria (HL-CASE). This single-site study demonstrated that, at a hospital level, the preferential use of cefotaxime rather than ceftriaxone had collective and ecological benefits at the service level. Indeed, their results conclude that resistance development is weaker, as well as more limited carriage of HL-CASE Enterobacterial strains by replacing ceftriaxone with cefotaxime. It should be noted, however, that the modification of prescribing practices of C3G has been coupled with various measures to limit the emergence of AmpC hyperproductive enterobacteria (reinforcement of hygiene rules, awareness of the health care team at EBLSE, control of antibiotic ...). In a context where the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria continues to increase, it seems appropriate to conduct a study to compare the impact of the use of ceftriaxone or cefotaxime on the emergence of BMR at the individual level. In the absence of a study clearly establishing the link between C3G types (ceftriaxone, cefotaxime) and the emergence of BMR and in line with the above research, this study aims to compare the microbiological impact of the use of either of these two C3Gs (in terms of emergence of bacterial resistance and impact on the diversity and quantity of digestive digestive bacteria). The study will have two periods: Period 1 during which patients hospitalized in the emergency department or in internal medicine and receiving C3G antibiotics will receive ceftriaxone, and the period 2 during which cefotaxime is cephalosporin used in first intention in these same patients. Thus, this research project, by focusing on these 5 parameters in patients treated with ceftriaxone or cefotaxime, should make it possible to prove the influence of these antibiotherapies on the carriage of BMR (deleterious action on the diversity and the quantity of the intestinal bacterial flora, resulting in an increase in the relative fecal abundance of these BMRs promoting their carriage). In addition, the hypothesis is that, contrary to current data, cefotaxime is found at sufficiently high concentrations in the feces to have an impact on the microbiota equivalent to that of ceftriaxone, despite less significant biliary elimination. This study therefore aims to compare their impacts on the microbiota and in particular on the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria (BMR) and enteropathogens such as Clostridium difficile.
AR-301 is being evaluated as an adjunctive treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) due to Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in combination with standard of care (SOC) antibiotic therapy in patients with confirmed S. aureus infection.