• Pieter Depuydt


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    Email —  ******@***ugent.be
    Head of Clinic Department of Intensive Care Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium
    Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Medicine Ghent University

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    Antibiotic decisions in the ICU: a dragon’s tale

    • ICU
    • 19/06/2018

    Medical decision-making about antibiotic use in critically ill patients is challenging and complex. The need for antibiotic stewardship requires judicious prescription and choice of antimicrobial

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  • Controversies in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diagnosis

    • 27/09/2016

    Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a ‏major complication of mechanical ‏ventilation and represents the most ‏common reason for antibiotic prescription in ‏ventilated patients. Incidence ranges from 1.2 ‏to 8.5 cases per 1000 ventilator days or 9 to ‏27% cases per mechanically ventilated patient; ‏attributable mortality rates vary between 0% ‏and 70% (Chastre and Fagon 2002; Melsen et ‏al. 2013). The...

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