antimicrobial therapy

Assessment of Mortality Rate and Efficacy of Antimicrobial Therapy in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Sverdlovsk Region

Efficacy of regional standard of care «CommunityAcquired Pneumonia» and Sverdlovsk regional healthcare program «Intensive Care» were assessed. This paper presents results of retrospective analysis of ICU hospitalizations for severe community-acquired …

Review of the IDSA Practice Guidelines for the Management of Bacterial Meningitis

In this paper currently available data on the management, diagnosis and treatment of bacterial meningitis were discussed in accordance with the principles evidencebased medicine. The guideline represents data published through May 2004 in this …

Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Adult Patients: Diagnosis, Antimicrobial Therapy and Prophylaxis (According to the Guidelines of European Respiratory Society and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)

According to the Guidelines of European Respiratory Society and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Clinical guidelines that comply with the principles of evidence-based medicine are one of the most trustworthy sources …

Resistance in Shigella spp. and Modern Approaches to Antimicrobial Therapy of Shigellosis

A variety of resistance mechanisms and free transfer of resistance genes whithin a gender as well as among Enterobacteriaceae lead to a number of problems in the choice of antibacterial therapy of shigellosis. Many conventional antimicrobials used …

Current State of Enteric Fever

In developed countries as well as in Russia enteric fever occurs rarely, whereas several areas in the world are still endemic. At present, prevalence of resistance to most of conventional antimicrobials in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi is …

Current Views on the Therapy of Enterococcal Endocarditis

The recent approaches to the treatment of endocarditis caused by Enterococcus spp., including strains that are resistant to conventional therapy, are discussed in the article. The possible ways of reduction of nephrotoxicity in elder patients and in …

Antimicrobial Therapy of Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnant Women

The regimens of antimicrobial therapy of urinary tract infections in pregnant women based on data on antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of urinary pathogens in Russia are suggested.For obstetricians, gynecologists, urologists, clinical …

The Protocols of Antibacterial Therapy

Present article describes the experience of development of the protocols of antimicrobial therapy in one single medical institution – the hospital of Krasnodar municipal medical center. The main purpose for the development of such protocols is the …

Antimicrobial Therapy of Intra-Abdominal Infections (According to the guidelines of Surgical Infection Society)

Treatment of intra-abdominal infections (IAI) is а significant problem in surgery. Taking into consideration the clinical practice in Russia, this paper presents an analysis of guidelines on antimicrobial therapy for IAI, developed by Surgical …

Pancreatitis and Associated Infections

Pancreatitis.associatedinfections (PAI) are among of the most serious complications of acute pancreatitis. Only about 5–7% of all patients with diagnosis of acute pancreatitis develop infection, but in patients with severe necrotizing pancreatitis …