In recent times, the number of patient deaths in ICUs has constantly scaled up due to general infections. On this line, 44 expert doctors from India have designed and developed the first ever Indian national guidelines for the use of antibiotics in ICU. ICUs are constantly full of patients suffering from diseases such as sepsis, multi-drug pathogenic infections, septic shock, acute infective diarrhoea, ventilator-associated pneumonia, abdominal infections, bacterial meningitis, skin infections.
The two-year project intrusted doctors from Indian Critical Care Medicine Society (ICCMS) under the able guidance of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) along with some doctors from AIIMS. The guidelines will be evaluated by ICMR and the same will be sent to the Health Ministry for further approval. The 160-page guideline details out some of the important recommendations: Details on…
