Full article: Appropriateness of empirical antibiotic therapy and added value of adjunctive
gentamicin in patients with septic shock: a prospective cohort study in the ICU Skip to Main …

… evaluated the frequency and risk factors of antibiotic dosing errors in sepsis. … sepsis.[10]
While there is ample evidence on the impact of timing and appropriateness of antibiotics on ICU …

… than time after intubation as a risk factor for colonization and acquisition of … treatment on
higher mortality rates in the ICU setting has been amply demonstrated, 32 appropriate empiric …

… -spectrum empirical antibiotic therapy, though appropriate, … intensive care unit (ICU) patients
received broad-spectrum … these patients had at least one high-risk factor for MDRO infection. …

… -onset if it developed in a patient prior to the hospital or intensive care unit (ICU) admission.
… The potential risk factors for inadequate empirical antibiotic therapy were first examined by …

… Patients who received triple therapy presented risk factors for … who required ICU care, which
made our findings somehow … therapy on the critically ill patients in the ICU setting. Further …

… appropriateness of empirical antibiotic prescriptions given for patients on admission to the
ICU. … The other independent risk factor for hospital mortality that we identified was prescription …

… aeruginosa, extended spectrum ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) carriers
accounted for between 5% and 25% among ICU patients with a major risk factor associated …

… -critically infected patients, which demonstrated that appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy
… our study may have missed other important risk factors or produced spurious findings. This …

… risk factors for mortality in bacteremic adults visiting the ED. … ); admission to the ICUs; initial
syndrome with sepsis in the ED; … patients treated with appropriate empirical antibiotics in the …