Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases

We present a synthesis of the role of corticosteroidsin severe infectious situations treated in intensive caredepartments, discussing, as the title implies, infectiousdiseases and not syndromic presentations, such as sepsisor ARDS. Te use of CS in HIV patients was excludedfrom the scope of this revi...

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Published in:	Intensive care medicine Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1306 - 1309
Main Authors:	Pereira, José Manuel, Lisboa, Thiago, Paiva, José-Artur
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-08-2018 Springer Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Adjuvant therapy Anesthesiology Clinical outcomes Combined Modality Therapy Communicable diseases Corticosteroids Critical Care Critical Care Medicine Emergency Medicine Health aspects Hospital patients Humans Infection Infection control Infections Infectious diseases Intensive Medicine Medicine & Public Health Meningitis Pain Medicine Pediatrics Pneumology/Respiratory System Pneumonia Steroid hormones Steroids Steroids - therapeutic use Tuberculosis Typhoid What's New in Intensive Care Brazil SCAP Patients Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia (SCAP) Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Severe Typhoid Fever Severe Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
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Summary:	We present a synthesis of the role of corticosteroidsin severe infectious situations treated in intensive caredepartments, discussing, as the title implies, infectiousdiseases and not syndromic presentations, such as sepsisor ARDS. Te use of CS in HIV patients was excludedfrom the scope of this review
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ISSN:	0342-4642 1432-1238
DOI:	10.1007/s00134-017-5020-9