ArticleCritical care (London, England)2013
A week seems to be weak: tailoring duration of antibiotic treatment in Gram-negative ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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- Individualized antibiotic therapy in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Article
- Duration of antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Review
- Treatment of Gram-negative pneumonia in the critical care setting: is the beta-lactam antibiotic backbone broken beyond repair?Critical care (London, England) · 2016Article
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Abstract
The optimal length of antimicrobial therapy has not been extensively studied for a great majority of infections and, in critically ill patients affected by ventilator-associated pneumonia, is a persisting and unsolved issue confronting clinicians. The integration of biomarkers, clinical judgment, and microbiologic eradication might help to define a shorter duration for some ventilator-associated pneumonia episodes due to non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli, but until these strategies are implemented in clinical practice for individualizing antibiotic treatment, a short-course duration does not seem to tailor a long benefit.
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