Intensive care unit patients with lower respiratory tract nosocomial infections: the ENIRRIs project.

ABSTRACT: The clinical course of intensive care unit (ICU) patients may be complicated by a large spectrum of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI), defined by specific epidemiological, clinical and microbiological aspects. A European network for ICU-related respiratory infections (ENIRRIs), supported by the European Respiratory Society, has been recently established, with the aim at studying all respiratory tract infective episodes except community-acquired ones. A multicentre, observational study is in progress, enrolling more than 1000 patients fulfilling the clinical, biochemical and radiological findings consistent with a LRTI. This article describes the methodology of this study. A specific interest is the clinical impact of non-ICU-acquired nosocomial pneumonia requiring ICU admission, no

SUBMITTER: De Pascale G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5691166 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature