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Antimicrobials: A global alliance for optimizing their rational use in intra-abdominal infections (AGORA)
Authors :
Sartelli, Massimo Weber, Dieter G. Ruppé, Etienne Bassetti, Matteo Wright, Brian J. Ansaloni, Luca Catena, Fausto Coccolini, Federico Abu Zidan, Fikri M. Coimbra, Raul Moore, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Maier, Ronald V. De Waele, Jan J. Kirkpatrick, Andrew W. Griffiths, Ewen A. Eckmann, Christian Brink, Adrian J. Mazuski, John E. May, Addison K. Sawyer, Rob G. Mertz, Dominik Montravers, Philippe Kumar, Anand Roberts, Jason A. Vincent, Jean Loui Watkins, Richard R. Lowman, Warren Spellberg, Brad Abbott, Iain J. Adesunkanmi, Abdulrashid Kayode Al Dahir, Sara Al Hasan, Majdi N. Agresta, Ferdinando Althani, Asma A. Ansari, Shamshul Ansumana, Rashid Augustin, Goran Bala, Miklosh Balogh, Zsolt J. Baraket, Oussama Bhangu, Aneel Beltrán, Marcelo A. Bernhard, Michael Biffl, Walter L. Boermeester, Marja A. Brecher, Stephen M. Cherry Bukowiec, Jill R. Buyne, Otmar R. Cainzos, Miguel A. Cairns, Kelly A. Camacho Ortiz, Adrian Chandy, Sujith J. Che Jusoh, Asri Chichom Mefire, Alain Colijn, Caroline Corcione, Francesco Cui, Yunfeng Curcio, Daniel Delibegovic, Samir Demetrashvili, Zaza De Simone, Belinda Dhingra, Sameer Diaz, José J. Di Carlo, Isidoro Dillip, Angel Di Saverio, Salomone Doyle, Michael P. Dorj, Gereltuya Dogjani, Agron Dupont, Hervé Eachempati, Soumitra R. Enani, Mushira Abdulaziz Egiev, Valery N. Elmangory, Mutasim M. Ferrada, Paula Fitchett, Joseph R. Fraga, Gustavo P. Guessennd, Nathalie Giamarellou, Helen Ghnnam, Wagih Gkiokas, George Goldberg, Staphanie R. Gomes, Carlos Augusto Gomi, Harumi Guzmán Blanco, Manuel Haque, Mainul Hansen, Sonja Hecker, Andrea Heizmann, Wolfgang R. Herzog, Torsten Hodonou, Adrien Montcho Hong, Suk Kyung Kafka Ritsch, Reinhold Kaplan, Lewis J. Kapoor, Garima Karamarkovic, Aleksandar Kees, Martin G. Kenig, Jakub Kiguba, Ronald Kim, Peter K. Kluger, Yoram Khokha, Vladimir Koike, Kaoru Kok, Kenneth Y. Y. Kong, Victory Knox, Matthew C. Inaba, Kenji Isik, Arda Iskandar, Katia Ivatury, Rao R. Labbate, Maurizio Labricciosa, Francesco M. Laterre, Pierre Françoi Latifi, Rifat Lee, Jae Gil Lee, Young Ran Leone, Marc Leppaniemi, Ari Li, Yousheng Liang, Stephen Y. Loho, Tonny Maegele, Marc Malama, Sydney Marei, Hany E. Martin Loeches, Ignacio Marwah, Sanjay Massele, Amo Mcfarlane, Michael Melo, Renato Bessa Negoi, Ionut Nicolau, David P. Nord, Carl Erik Ofori Asenso, Richard Omari, AbdelKarim H. Ordonez, Carlos A. Ouadii, Mouaqit Pereira Júnior, Gerson Alve Piazza, Diego Pupelis, Guntar Rawson, Timothy Mile Rems, Miran Rizoli, Sandro Rocha, Claudio Sakakhushev, Bori Sanchez Garcia, Miguel Sato, Norio Segovia Lohse, Helmut A. Sganga, Gabriele Siribumrungwong, Boonying Shelat, Vishal G. Soreide, Kjetil Soto, Rodolfo Talving, Peep Tilsed, Jonathan V. Timsit, Jean Francoi Trueba, Gabriel Trung, Ngo Tat Ulrych, Jan van Goor, Harry Vereczkei, Andra Vohra, Ravinder S. Wani, Imtiaz Uhl, Waldemar Xiao, Yonghong Yuan, Kuo Ching Zachariah, Sanoop K. Zahar, Jean Ralph Zakrison, Tanya L. Corcione, Antonio Melotti, Rita M. Viscoli, Claudio Viale, Perluigi Sganga, Gabriele (ORCID:0000-0001-5079-0395) Sartelli, Massimo Weber, Dieter G. Ruppé, Etienne Bassetti, Matteo Wright, Brian J. Ansaloni, Luca Catena, Fausto Coccolini, Federico Abu Zidan, Fikri M. Coimbra, Raul Moore, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Maier, Ronald V. De Waele, Jan J. Kirkpatrick, Andrew W. Griffiths, Ewen A. Eckmann, Christian Brink, Adrian J. Mazuski, John E. May, Addison K. Sawyer, Rob G. Mertz, Dominik Montravers, Philippe Kumar, Anand Roberts, Jason A. Vincent, Jean Loui Watkins, Richard R. Lowman, Warren Spellberg, Brad Abbott, Iain J. Adesunkanmi, Abdulrashid Kayode Al Dahir, Sara Al Hasan, Majdi N. Agresta, Ferdinando Althani, Asma A. Ansari, Shamshul Ansumana, Rashid Augustin, Goran Bala, Miklosh Balogh, Zsolt J. Baraket, Oussama Bhangu, Aneel Beltrán, Marcelo A. Bernhard, Michael Biffl, Walter L. Boermeester, Marja A. Brecher, Stephen M. Cherry Bukowiec, Jill R. Buyne, Otmar R. Cainzos, Miguel A. Cairns, Kelly A. Camacho Ortiz, Adrian Chandy, Sujith J. Che Jusoh, Asri Chichom Mefire, Alain Colijn, Caroline Corcione, Francesco Cui, Yunfeng Curcio, Daniel Delibegovic, Samir Demetrashvili, Zaza De Simone, Belinda Dhingra, Sameer Diaz, José J. Di Carlo, Isidoro Dillip, Angel Di Saverio, Salomone Doyle, Michael P. Dorj, Gereltuya Dogjani, Agron Dupont, Hervé Eachempati, Soumitra R. Enani, Mushira Abdulaziz Egiev, Valery N. Elmangory, Mutasim M. Ferrada, Paula Fitchett, Joseph R. Fraga, Gustavo P. Guessennd, Nathalie Giamarellou, Helen Ghnnam, Wagih Gkiokas, George Goldberg, Staphanie R. Gomes, Carlos Augusto Gomi, Harumi Guzmán Blanco, Manuel Haque, Mainul Hansen, Sonja Hecker, Andrea Heizmann, Wolfgang R. Herzog, Torsten Hodonou, Adrien Montcho Hong, Suk Kyung Kafka Ritsch, Reinhold Kaplan, Lewis J. Kapoor, Garima Karamarkovic, Aleksandar Kees, Martin G. Kenig, Jakub Kiguba, Ronald Kim, Peter K. Kluger, Yoram Khokha, Vladimir Koike, Kaoru Kok, Kenneth Y. Y. Kong, Victory Knox, Matthew C. Inaba, Kenji Isik, Arda Iskandar, Katia Ivatury, Rao R. Labbate, Maurizio Labricciosa, Francesco M. Laterre, Pierre Françoi Latifi, Rifat Lee, Jae Gil Lee, Young Ran Leone, Marc Leppaniemi, Ari Li, Yousheng Liang, Stephen Y. Loho, Tonny Maegele, Marc Malama, Sydney Marei, Hany E. Martin Loeches, Ignacio Marwah, Sanjay Massele, Amo Mcfarlane, Michael Melo, Renato Bessa Negoi, Ionut Nicolau, David P. Nord, Carl Erik Ofori Asenso, Richard Omari, AbdelKarim H. Ordonez, Carlos A. Ouadii, Mouaqit Pereira Júnior, Gerson Alve Piazza, Diego Pupelis, Guntar Rawson, Timothy Mile Rems, Miran Rizoli, Sandro Rocha, Claudio Sakakhushev, Bori Sanchez Garcia, Miguel Sato, Norio Segovia Lohse, Helmut A. Sganga, Gabriele Siribumrungwong, Boonying Shelat, Vishal G. Soreide, Kjetil Soto, Rodolfo Talving, Peep Tilsed, Jonathan V. Timsit, Jean Francoi Trueba, Gabriel Trung, Ngo Tat Ulrych, Jan van Goor, Harry Vereczkei, Andra Vohra, Ravinder S. Wani, Imtiaz Uhl, Waldemar Xiao, Yonghong Yuan, Kuo Ching Zachariah, Sanoop K. Zahar, Jean Ralph Zakrison, Tanya L. Corcione, Antonio Melotti, Rita M. Viscoli, Claudio Viale, Perluigi Sganga, Gabriele (ORCID:0000-0001-5079-0395)
Publication Year :
2016
Abstract
Intra-abdominal infections (IAI) are an important cause of morbidity and are frequently associated with poor prognosis, particularly in high-risk patients. The cornerstones in the management of complicated IAIs are timely effective source control with appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Empiric antimicrobial therapy is important in the management of intra-abdominal infections and must be broad enough to cover all likely organisms because inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy is associated with poor patient outcomes and the development of bacterial resistance. The overuse of antimicrobials is widely accepted as a major driver of some emerging infections (such as C. difficile), the selection of resistant pathogens in individual patients, and for the continued development of antimicrobial resistance globally. The growing emergence of multi-drug resistant organisms and the limited development of new agents available to counteract them have caused an impending crisis with alarming implications, especially with regards to Gram-negative bacteria. An international task force from 79 different countries has joined this project by sharing a document on the rational use of antimicrobials for patients with IAIs. The project has been termed AGORA (Antimicrobials: A Global Alliance for Optimizing their Rational Use in Intra-Abdominal Infections). The authors hope that AGORA, involving many of the world's leading experts, can actively raise awareness in health workers and can improve prescribing behavior in treating IAIs.
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Database :
OAIster
Notes :
English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1105029466
Document Type :
Electronic Resource