Risk factors for ventilator associated pneumonia due to KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in mechanically ventilated patients with tracheal and rectal colonization.

CONCLUSIONS: In rectal and tracheal KPC-Kp colonized patients, prolonged antibiotic therapy administered for non KPC-Kp infection predisposes patients to subsequent KPC-Kp VAP. Short prophylaxis of early pneumonia with amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, reducing the need for subsequent antibiotic use, may be associated with reduced risk for KPC-Kp VAP. PMID: 26745619 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26745619?dopt=Abstract

Source: Minerva Anestesiologica - January 16, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Minerva Anestesiol Source Type: research