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Hurley J. Rebound Inverts the Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Prevention Effect of Antibiotic Based Decontamination Interventions in ICU Cohorts with Prolonged Length of Stay. Antibiotics (Basel) 2024; 13:316. [PMID: 38666992 PMCID: PMC11047347 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics13040316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2024] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024] Open
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Could rebound explain the paradoxical lack of prevention effect against Staphylococcus aureus blood stream infections (BSIs) with antibiotic-based decontamination intervention (BDI) methods among studies of ICU patients within the literature? Two meta-regression models were applied, each versus the group mean length of stay (LOS). Firstly, the prevention effects against S. aureus BSI [and S. aureus VAP] among 136 studies of antibiotic-BDI versus other interventions were analyzed. Secondly, the S. aureus BSI [and S. aureus VAP] incidence in 268 control and intervention cohorts from studies of antibiotic-BDI versus that among 165 observational cohorts as a benchmark was modelled. In model one, the meta-regression line versus group mean LOS crossed the null, with the antibiotic-BDI prevention effect against S. aureus BSI at mean LOS day 7 (OR 0.45; 0.30 to 0.68) inverted at mean LOS day 20 (OR 1.7; 1.1 to 2.6). In model two, the meta-regression line versus group mean LOS crossed the benchmark line, and the predicted S. aureus BSI incidence for antibiotic-BDI groups was 0.47; 0.09-0.84 percentage points below versus 3.0; 0.12-5.9 above the benchmark in studies with 7 versus 20 days mean LOS, respectively. Rebound within the intervention groups attenuated and inverted the prevention effect of antibiotic-BDI against S. aureus VAP and BSI, respectively. This explains the paradoxical findings.
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- James Hurley
- Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia;
- Ballarat Health Services, Grampians Health, Ballarat, VIC 3350, Australia
- Ballarat Clinical School, Deakin University, Ballarat, VIC 3350, Australia
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Guénégou-Arnoux A, Murris J, Bechet S, Jung C, Auchabie J, Dupeyrat J, Anguel N, Asfar P, Badie J, Carpentier D, Chousterman B, Bourenne J, Delbove A, Devaquet J, Deye N, Dumas G, Dureau AF, Lascarrou JB, Legriel S, Guitton C, Jannière-Nartey C, Quenot JP, Lacherade JC, Maizel J, Mekontso Dessap A, Mourvillier B, Petua P, Plantefeve G, Richard JC, Robert A, Saccheri C, Vong LVP, Katsahian S, Schortgen F. Protocol for fever control using external cooling in mechanically ventilated patients with septic shock: SEPSISCOOL II randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 2024; 14:e069430. [PMID: 38286691 PMCID: PMC10826574 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Fever treatment is commonly applied in patients with sepsis but its impact on survival remains undetermined. Patients with respiratory and haemodynamic failure are at the highest risk for not tolerating the metabolic cost of fever. However, fever can help to control infection. Treating fever with paracetamol has been shown to be less effective than cooling. In the SEPSISCOOL pilot study, active fever control by external cooling improved organ failure recovery and early survival. The main objective of this confirmatory trial is to assess whether fever control at normothermia can improve the evolution of organ failure and mortality at day 60 of febrile patients with septic shock. This study will compare two strategies within the first 48 hours of septic shock: treatment of fever with cooling or no treatment of fever. METHODS AND ANALYSIS SEPSISCOOL II is a pragmatic, investigator-initiated, adaptive, multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled, superiority trial in patients admitted to the intensive care unit with febrile septic shock. After stratification based on the acute respiratory distress syndrome status, patients will be randomised between two arms: (1) cooling and (2) no cooling. The primary endpoint is mortality at day 60 after randomisation. The secondary endpoints include the evolution of organ failure, early mortality and tolerance. The target sample size is 820 patients. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION The study is funded by the French health ministry and was approved by the ethics committee CPP Nord Ouest II (Amiens, France). The results will be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT04494074.
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- Armelle Guénégou-Arnoux
- INSERM CIC1418-EC, INSERM-INRIA HeKA, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Hôpital européen Georges Pompidou, Unité de Recherche Clinique, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- INSERM-INRIA HeKA, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- RWE & Data, Pierre Fabre SA, Paris, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil, Creteil, France
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- ICU Medical, AP-HP, Hôpital du Kremlin Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicètre, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Hôpital Nord Franche-Comté - Site de Belfort, Belfort, France
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- Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Réanimation des Urgences, Aix-Marseille Université, CHU La Timone 2, Marseille, France
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- Réanimation Polyvalente, Centre Hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique, Vannes, France
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- Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Foch, Suresnes, France
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- Réanimation Médicale et Toxicologique, AP-HP, INSERM UMR-S 942, Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris, France
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- Intensive Care Medicine, Hôpital Albert Michallon, La Tronche, France
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- Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Le Chesnay, France
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- Médecine intensive réanimation, Centre Hospitalier de Mans, Le Mans, France
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- Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier Departmental La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
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- Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens-Picardie, Amiens, France
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- Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier d'Argenteuil, Argenteuil, France
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- Pasteur 2 Medical ICU, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France
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- Medical ICU, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France
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- INSERM CIC1418-EC, INSERM-INRIA HeKA, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Hôpital européen Georges Pompidou, Unité de Recherche Clinique, AP-HP, Paris, France
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Erfani Z, Jelodari Mamaghani H, Rawling JA, Eajazi A, Deever D, Mirmoeeni S, Azari Jafari A, Seifi A. Pneumonia in Nervous System Injuries: An Analytic Review of Literature and Recommendations. Cureus 2022; 14:e25616. [PMID: 35784955 PMCID: PMC9249029 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.25616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Pneumonia is one of the most common complications in intensive care units and is the most common nosocomial infection in this setting. Patients with neurocritical conditions who are admitted to ICUs are no exception, and in fact, are more prone to infections such as pneumonia because of factors such as swallow dysfunction, need for mechanical ventilation, longer length of stay in hospitals, etc. Common central nervous system pathologies such as ischemic stroke, traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, neuromuscular disorders, status epilepticus, and demyelinating diseases can cause long in-hospital admissions and increase the risk of pneumonia each with a mechanism of its own. Brain injury-induced immunosuppression syndrome is usually considered the common mechanism through which patients with critical central nervous system conditions become susceptible to different kinds of infection including pneumonia. Evaluating the patients and assessment of the risk factors can lead our attention toward better infection control in this population and therefore decrease the risk of infections in central nervous system injuries.
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Fever Management of Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 Infection: Less is More? INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTION 2020. [DOI: 10.5812/iji.107422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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[Antipyretics in intensive care patients]. Anaesthesist 2018; 66:511-517. [PMID: 28364306 DOI: 10.1007/s00101-017-0301-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Antipyretics are among the most widely prescribed drugs in German hospitals. Despite this widespread use, their role for treatment of critically ill patients still remains unclear. In particular, the questionable positive effects of reducing fever are discussed. OBJECTIVES In this review we aimed to summarize and discuss current study results covering the use of antipyretics in critically ill patients. Suspected effects with regard to fever reduction and lethality should be considered. MATERIALS AND METHODS A selective literature search was carried out in the PubMed database. We reviewed the bibliographies of all work considered relevant. RESULTS There are only a few studies on the use of antipyretics in intensive care patients, which are difficult to compare systematically due to different designs, protocols and endpoints. All in all, the decrease in temperature was very low (0.3 °C) and showed even adverse effects on 28-days mortality in sepsis. In patients with sepsis and ASS medication, a decreased mortality has been shown in retrospective analysis. CONCLUSIONS The benefit of fever control using antipyretics in intensive care patients with regard to endpoints like lethality remains unclear. Randomized controlled trials with suitable protocols and endpoints are needed to provide a solid base for development of guidelines.
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Contrôle cible de la température en réanimation (hors nouveau-nés). MEDECINE INTENSIVE REANIMATION 2018. [DOI: 10.3166/rea-2018-0005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ho CH, Liang FW, Wang JJ, Chio CC, Kuo JR. Impact of grouping complications on mortality in traumatic brain injury: A nationwide population-based study. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0190683. [PMID: 29324771 PMCID: PMC5764255 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important health issue with high mortality. Various complications of physiological and cognitive impairment may result in disability or death after TBI. Grouping of these complications could be treated as integrated post-TBI syndromes. To improve risk estimation, grouping TBI complications should be investigated, to better predict TBI mortality. This study aimed to estimate mortality risk based on grouping of complications among TBI patients. Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database was used in this study. TBI was defined according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes: 801-804 and 850-854. The association rule data mining method was used to analyze coexisting complications after TBI. The mortality risk of post-TBI complication sets with the potential risk factors was estimated using Cox regression. A total 139,254 TBI patients were enrolled in this study. Intracerebral hemorrhage was the most common complication among TBI patients. After frequent item set mining, the most common post-TBI grouping of complications comprised pneumonia caused by acute respiratory failure (ARF) and urinary tract infection, with mortality risk 1.55 (95% C.I.: 1.51-1.60), compared with those without the selected combinations. TBI patients with the combined combinations have high mortality risk, especially those aged <20 years with septicemia, pneumonia, and ARF (HR: 4.95, 95% C.I.: 3.55-6.88). We used post-TBI complication sets to estimate mortality risk among TBI patients. According to the combinations determined by mining, especially the combination of septicemia with pneumonia and ARF, TBI patients have a 1.73-fold increased mortality risk, after controlling for potential demographic and clinical confounders. TBI patients aged<20 years with each combination of complications also have increased mortality risk. These results could provide physicians and caregivers with important information to increase their awareness about sequences of clinical syndromes among TBI patients, to prevent possible deaths among these patients.
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- Chung-Han Ho
- Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
- Department of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
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- National Cheng Kung University Research Center for Health Data and Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
- Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
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Unusually High Incidences of Staphylococcus aureus Infection within Studies of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Prevention Using Topical Antibiotics: Benchmarking the Evidence Base. Microorganisms 2018; 6:microorganisms6010002. [PMID: 29300363 PMCID: PMC5874616 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms6010002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2017] [Revised: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Selective digestive decontamination (SDD, topical antibiotic regimens applied to the respiratory tract) appears effective for preventing ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, potential contextual effects of SDD on Staphylococcus aureus infections in the ICU remain unclear. The S. aureus ventilator associated pneumonia (S. aureus VAP), VAP overall and S. aureus bacteremia incidences within component (control and intervention) groups within 27 SDD studies were benchmarked against 115 observational groups. Component groups from 66 studies of various interventions other than SDD provided additional points of reference. In 27 SDD study control groups, the mean S. aureus VAP incidence is 9.6% (95% CI; 6.9–13.2) versus a benchmark derived from 115 observational groups being 4.8% (95% CI; 4.2–5.6). In nine SDD study control groups the mean S. aureus bacteremia incidence is 3.8% (95% CI; 2.1–5.7) versus a benchmark derived from 10 observational groups being 2.1% (95% CI; 1.1–4.1). The incidences of S. aureus VAP and S. aureus bacteremia within the control groups of SDD studies are each higher than literature derived benchmarks. Paradoxically, within the SDD intervention groups, the incidences of both S. aureus VAP and VAP overall are more similar to the benchmarks.
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Targeted temperature management in the ICU: Guidelines from a French expert panel. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med 2017; 37:481-491. [PMID: 28688998 DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Over the recent period, the use of induced hypothermia has gained an increasing interest for critically ill patients, in particular in brain-injured patients. The term "targeted temperature management" (TTM) has now emerged as the most appropriate when referring to interventions used to reach and maintain a specific level temperature for each individual. TTM may be used to prevent fever, to maintain normothermia, or to lower core temperature. This treatment is widely used in intensive care units, mostly as a primary neuroprotective method. Indications are, however, associated with variable levels of evidence based on inhomogeneous or even contradictory literature. Our aim was to conduct a systematic analysis of the published data in order to provide guidelines. We present herein recommendations for the use of TTM in adult and paediatric critically ill patients developed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) method. These guidelines were conducted by a group of experts from the French Intensive Care Society (Société de réanimation de langue française [SRLF]) and the French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Société francaise d'anesthésie réanimation [SFAR]) with the participation of the French Emergency Medicine Association (Société française de médecine d'urgence [SFMU]), the French Group for Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergencies (Groupe francophone de réanimation et urgences pédiatriques [GFRUP]), the French National Association of Neuro-Anesthesiology and Critical Care (Association nationale de neuro-anesthésie réanimation française [ANARLF]), and the French Neurovascular Society (Société française neurovasculaire [SFNV]). Fifteen experts and two coordinators agreed to consider questions concerning TTM and its practical implementation in five clinical situations: cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, stroke, other brain injuries, and shock. This resulted in 30 recommendations: 3 recommendations were strong (Grade 1), 13 were weak (Grade 2), and 14 were experts' opinions. After two rounds of rating and various amendments, a strong agreement from voting participants was obtained for all 30 (100%) recommendations, which are exposed in the present article.
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Over the recent period, the use of induced hypothermia has gained an increasing interest for critically ill patients, in particular in brain-injured patients. The term “targeted temperature management” (TTM) has now emerged as the most appropriate when referring to interventions used to reach and maintain a specific level temperature for each individual. TTM may be used to prevent fever, to maintain normothermia, or to lower core temperature. This treatment is widely used in intensive care units, mostly as a primary neuroprotective method. Indications are, however, associated with variable levels of evidence based on inhomogeneous or even contradictory literature. Our aim was to conduct a systematic analysis of the published data in order to provide guidelines. We present herein recommendations for the use of TTM in adult and paediatric critically ill patients developed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) method. These guidelines were conducted by a group of experts from the French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française [SRLF]) and the French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Société Francaise d’Anesthésie Réanimation [SFAR]) with the participation of the French Emergency Medicine Association (Société Française de Médecine d’Urgence [SFMU]), the French Group for Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergencies (Groupe Francophone de Réanimation et Urgences Pédiatriques [GFRUP]), the French National Association of Neuro-Anesthesiology and Critical Care (Association Nationale de Neuro-Anesthésie Réanimation Française [ANARLF]), and the French Neurovascular Society (Société Française Neurovasculaire [SFNV]). Fifteen experts and two coordinators agreed to consider questions concerning TTM and its practical implementation in five clinical situations: cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, stroke, other brain injuries, and shock. This resulted in 30 recommendations: 3 recommendations were strong (Grade 1), 13 were weak (Grade 2), and 14 were experts’ opinions. After two rounds of rating and various amendments, a strong agreement from voting participants was obtained for all 30 (100%) recommendations, which are exposed in the present article.
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Hu PJ, Pittet JF, Kerby JD, Bosarge PL, Wagener BM. Acute brain trauma, lung injury, and pneumonia: more than just altered mental status and decreased airway protection. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2017; 313:L1-L15. [PMID: 28408366 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00485.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Revised: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Even when patients survive the initial insult, there is significant morbidity and mortality secondary to subsequent pulmonary edema, acute lung injury (ALI), and nosocomial pneumonia. Whereas the relationship between TBI and secondary pulmonary complications is recognized, little is known about the mechanistic interplay of the two phenomena. Changes in mental status secondary to acute brain injury certainly impair airway- and lung-protective mechanisms. However, clinical and translational evidence suggests that more specific neuronal and cellular mechanisms contribute to impaired systemic and lung immunity that increases the risk of TBI-mediated lung injury and infection. To better understand the cellular mechanisms of that immune impairment, we review here the current clinical data that support TBI-induced impairment of systemic and lung immunity. Furthermore, we also review the animal models that attempt to reproduce human TBI. Additionally, we examine the possible role of damage-associated molecular patterns, the chlolinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, and sex dimorphism in post-TBI ALI. In the last part of the review, we discuss current treatments and future pharmacological therapies, including fever control, tracheostomy, and corticosteroids, aimed to prevent and treat pulmonary edema, ALI, and nosocomial pneumonia after TBI.
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- Parker J Hu
- Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.,Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and.,Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and
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Seguin P, Launey Y, Nesseler N, Malledant Y. [Is control fever mandatory in severe infections?]. MEDECINE INTENSIVE REANIMATION 2016; 25:266-273. [PMID: 32288743 PMCID: PMC7117820 DOI: 10.1007/s13546-015-1168-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Temperature control during severe sepsis is currently used in intensive care and involves 66% and 70% of severe sepsis and septic shock, respectively. Nevertheless, the conclusive evidence of the benefit of such a strategy is still lacking.We might wonder, with regards to experimental works and recent noninterventional studies, about the risk of a control strategy on an ongoing infectious process, the patient's outcome, and the safety of the means implemented to obtain temperature control. On the other hand, it is also demonstrated that fever increases oxygen consumption, which may lead in some clinical situations to tissular ischemia and that fever may be associated with a deleterious focal inflammatory process. Methods to control the temperature include external and/or internal cooling and/or antipyretic medications such as paracetamol and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. In septic patients, external cooling and paracetamol are the mains means used to control temperature. Despite the uncertainties about the benefit to control or not the temperature, it could be stated that extreme temperature (hypo- or hyperthermia) should be avoided and that the benefit/risk of temperature control must be individually weighted.
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- P. Seguin
- Service d’anesthésie-réanimation 1, réanimation chirurgicale, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Service d’anesthésie-réanimation 1, réanimation chirurgicale, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Service d’anesthésie-réanimation 1, réanimation chirurgicale, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Service d’anesthésie-réanimation 1, réanimation chirurgicale, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, F-35000 Rennes, France
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Harmon MBA, Itenov TS, Jensen JU, Juffermans NP. Is fever control or improved survival the ‘risk factor’ for ventilator-associated pneumonia? Crit Care 2015; 19:208. [PMID: 25924709 PMCID: PMC4415296 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-0821-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Hayes CJ, Hudson TJ, Phillips MM, Bursac Z, Williams JS, Austin MA, Edlund MJ, Martin BC. The influence of propoxyphene withdrawal on opioid use in veterans. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2015; 24:1180-8. [PMID: 26248742 DOI: 10.1002/pds.3851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2015] [Revised: 07/11/2015] [Accepted: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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PURPOSE Our aim is to determine if propoxyphene withdrawal from the US market was associated with opioid continuation, continued chronic opioid use, and secondary propoxyphene-related adverse events (emergency department visits, opioid-related events, and acetaminophen toxicity). METHODS Medical service use and pharmacy data from 19/11/08 to 19/11/11 were collected from the national Veterans Healthcare Administration healthcare databases. A quasi-experimental pre-post retrospective cohort design utilizing a historical comparison group provided the study framework. Logistic regression controlling for baseline covariates was used to estimate the effect of propoxyphene withdrawal. RESULTS There were 24,328 subjects (policy affected n = 10,747; comparison n = 13,581) meeting inclusion criteria. In the policy-affected cohort, 10.6% of users ceased using opioids, and 26.6% stopped chronic opioid use compared with 3.8% and 13.5% in the historical comparison cohort, respectively. Those in the policy-affected cohort were 2.7 (95%CI: 2.5-2.8) and 3.2 (95%CI: 2.9-3.6) times more likely than those in the historical comparison cohort to discontinue chronic opioid and any opioid use, respectively. Changes in adverse events and Emergency Department (ED) visits were not different between policy-affected and historical comparison cohorts (p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The withdrawal of propoxyphene-containing products resulted in rapid and virtually complete elimination in propoxyphene prescribing in the veterans population; however, nearly 90% of regular users of propoxyphene switched to an alternate opioid, and three quarters continued to use opioids chronically.
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- Corey J Hayes
- Department of Pharmacy, Baptist Health Medical Center -Little Rock, AR, USA.,Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.,Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Center for Population Sciences, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Behavioral Health Epidemiology Program, RTI International, NC, USA.,Behavioral Health Services, St. Luke's Health System, Twin Falls, ID, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.,Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA
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