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- Title
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases.
- Authors
Pereira, José Manuel; Paiva, José-Artur; Lisboa, Thiago
- Abstract
The article discusses adjuvant therapies in critically ill, and steroids use in treating infectious diseases. It discusses the role of corticosteroids in the treatment of severe infectious situations with high morbidity and high baseline mortality in intensive care units such as bacterial and tuberculous meningitis, tuberculous pericarditis, severe typhoid fever and severe non-HIV pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) with further studies required for severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP)
- Subjects
CRITICALLY ill patient care; STEROID drugs; COMMUNICABLE disease treatment; ADRENOCORTICAL hormones; INTENSIVE care units; TUBERCULOUS meningitis; TYPHOID fever; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2018, Vol 44, Issue 8, p1306
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-017-5020-9