Authors
O Leroy, C Santre, C Beuscart, H Georges, B Guery, JM Jacquier, G Beaucaire
Publication date
1995/1
Journal
Intensive care medicine
Volume
21
Pages
24-31
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Description
Objectives
To characterize the epidemiology and to determine the prognosis factors in severe community-acquired pneumonia among patients admitted to an intensive care unit.
Design
Retrospective clinical study.
Setting
Intensive Care and Infectious Diseases Unit of a municipal general hospital of Lille University Medical School.
Patients
299 consecutive patients exhibiting severe community-acquired pneumonia.
Measurements and results
On admission to ICU, 149 patients required mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure and 44 exhibited septic shock. Pulmonary involvement was bilateral in 71 patients. There were 260 organisms isolated from 197 patients (65.9%), the most frequent beingStreptococcus pneumoniae (n=80 …
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