Top thematic articles from the Intensive Care Medicine Journal

If you are an ESICM member, you are entitled to an annual subscription to the ICM journal, the publication platform for the communication and exchange of current work and ideas in intensive care medicine.

Each month, we will bring you a selection of past original papers, educational articles, discussions, brief reports and correspondence related to our topic of the month.

June’s resources are focused on Infection:

Abrams D. et al. ~ ECLS-associated infections in adults: what we know and what we don’t yet know

Antonelli M. et al. ~ Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection in the critically ill: an expert statement

Azoulay E. et al. ~ Diagnosis of severe respiratory infections in immunocompromised patients

Bassetti M. et al. ~ Post-operative abdominal infections: epidemiology, operational definitions, and outcomes

Blot S. et al. ~ Epidemiology of intra-abdominal infection and sepsis in critically ill patients: “AbSeS”, a multinational observational cohort study and ESICM Trials Group Project

Denny K.J. et al. ~ Extra-cardiac endovascular infections in the critically ill

Meyfroidt G. et al. ~ Critical care management of infectious meningitis and encephalitis

Tabah A. et al. ~ Antimicrobial de-escalation in critically ill patients: a position statement from a task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Critically Ill Patients Study Group (ESGCIP)

Timsit J-F. et al. ~ Bloodstream infections in critically ill patients: an expert statement

Vanderbeke L. et al. ~ Posaconazole for prevention of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill influenza patients (POSA-FLU): a randomised, open-label, proof-of-concept trial

More high-quality articles from the ICM Journal, here.