ascorbic-acid and Gram-Positive-Bacterial-Infections

The definition of sepsis continues to be as dynamic as the management strategies used to treat this. Sepsis-3 has replaced the earlier systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)-based diagnoses with the rapid Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score assisting in predicting overall prognosis with regards to mortality. Surgeons have an important role in ensuring adequate source control while recognizing the threat of carbapenem-resistance in gram-negative organisms. Rapid diagnostic tests are being used increasingly for the early identification of multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs), with a key emphasis on the multidisciplinary alert of results. Novel, higher generation antibiotic agents have been developed for resistance in ESKCAPE (

Topics: Acinetobacter baumannii; Acinetobacter Infections; Angiotensin II; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antioxidants; Ascorbic Acid; Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae; Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; Duration of Therapy; Enterobacteriaceae Infections; Enterococcus faecium; Enzyme Inhibitors; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections; Humans; Klebsiella Infections; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Machine Learning; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Methylene Blue; Organ Dysfunction Scores; Patient Care Bundles; Postoperative Complications; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Procalcitonin; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Pseudomonas Infections; Sepsis; Shock, Septic; Staphylococcal Infections; Thiamine; Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci; Vasoconstrictor Agents; Vitamin B Complex

We report a patient with risk factors for both microbial keratitis and endophthalmitis, which were initially challenging to distinguish. Cultures of corneal scrapings yielded several organisms, including an uncultivable Gram-negative rod, eventually identified as

Topics: Administration, Ophthalmic; Adult; Anti-Inflammatory Agents; Antioxidants; Ascorbic Acid; Ceftazidime; Cocaine; Cocaine-Related Disorders; Coinfection; Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors; Doxycycline; Endophthalmitis; Female; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections; Humans; Keratitis; Kingella; Linezolid; Moxifloxacin; Neisseriaceae Infections; Ophthalmic Solutions; Prednisone; Propionibacterium acnes; Streptococcal Infections; Streptococcus; Substance Abuse, Intravenous; Tobramycin; Vancomycin; Voriconazole