Patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) were less likely to develop bloodstream infections (BSI) if treated with fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) compared with antibiotics.
Early fluid resuscitative efforts are important in patients with sepsis with cirrhosis, congestive heart failure, or end-stage renal disease to prevent acute respiratory failure.
In this study, we found that early first antibiotic administration was associated with improved outcomes in ED patients with septic shock using propensity score analysis.
The development of quality indicators and accompanying defining conditions may highlight areas of improvement at hospital sites to enhance the management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
Among patients with sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome, administration of high-dose vitamin C via intravenous infusion does not significantly reduce organ failure.
The involvement of the biliary tract in bacteremia caused by Staphylococcus aureus may be more likely to develop in certain patients and aggressive treatment should be considered.
Bloodstream infections are common in patients who have received a solid organ transplants.
A shorter course of antibiotic treatment for uncomplicated gram-negative bloodstream infections appears to be as effective as long-course antibiotic treatment.
Cardiac implantable electronic device-related infective endocarditis is diagnosed in a third of patients with implantable device related infections.
When empirical antimicrobial therapy is initiated in patients with severe manifestations of sepsis, the sensitivity of blood cultures drawn shortly after treatment initiation is reduced.
