Critical Care Management of the Patient with Clostridioides difficile.
Critical Care Management of the Patient with Clostridioides difficile.
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DOI:
10.1097/ccm.0000000000004739
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发表时间:
2021-01-01
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Kraft CS
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作者:
Adelman MW;Woodworth MH;Shaffer VO;Martin GS;Kraft CS
To review published clinical evidence on management of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in critically ill patients. We obtained relevant studies from a PubMed literature review and bibliographies of reviewed articles. We selected English-language studies addressing aspects of CDI relevant to critical care clinicians including epidemiology, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, with a focus on high-quality clinical evidence. We reviewed potentially relevant studies and abstracted information on study design, methods, patient selection, and results of relevant studies. This is a synthetic (i.e., not systematic) review. CDI is the most common healthcare-associated infection in the United States. Antibiotics are the most significant CDI risk factor, and among antibiotics, cephalosporins, clindamycin, carbapenems, fluoroquinolones and piperacillin-tazobactam confer the highest risk. Age, diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease and end-stage renal disease are risk factors for CDI development and mortality. CDI diagnosis is based on testing appropriately selected patients with diarrhea, or on clinical suspicion for patients with ileus. Patients with fulminant disease (CDI with hypotension, shock, ileus, or megacolon) should be treated with oral vancomycin and intravenous metronidazole, as well as rectal vancomycin in case of ileus. Patients who do not respond to initial therapy should be considered for fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) or surgery. Proper infection prevention practices decrease CDI risk. Strong clinical evidence supports limiting antibiotics when possible to decrease CDI risk. For patients with fulminant CDI, oral vancomycin reduces mortality, and adjunctive therapies (including intravenous metronidazole) and interventions (including FMT) may benefit select patients. Several important questions remain regarding fulminant CDI management, including which patients benefit from FMT or surgery.