Point: Should inhaled antibiotic therapy be routinely used for the treatment of bacterial lower respiratory tract infections in the ICU setting? Yes.

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Point: Should inhaled antibiotic therapy be routinely used for the treatment of bacterial lower respiratory tract infections in the ICU setting? Yes.

Chest. 2016 Nov 22;:

Authors: Wunderink RG

Abstract
Routine use of aerosolized antibiotics is the most rational approach to the current treatment dilemmas for severe hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) requiring endotracheal intubation or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The two main issues for HAP/VAP are inappropriate initial therapy and ineffective therapy for multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens, particularly gram negative bacilli such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter species. The emergence of extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) and carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have made even common pathogens such as Escherichia coli difficult to treat.

PMID: 27916621 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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