Denver Health

Abernathy Review

Knife and Gun Club

March, 2008

Life-Threatening Infections

1. Approach to the patient with a parapneumonic effusion. Clin Chest Med 2006;27:253-266.

2. Fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis. Curr Opin Crit Care 2007;13:450-455.

3. Impact of emergency colectomy on survival of patients with fulminant clostridium difficile colitis during an epidemic caused by a hypervirulent strain. Ann Surg 2007;245:267-272.

4. Necrotizing soft-tissue infection:diagnosis and management. Clin Infect Dis 2007;44:705-710.

5. Optimal management on complicated empyema. Am J Surg 2000;180:507-511.

6. The LRINEC (Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis) score: a tool for distinguishing necrotizing fasciitis from other soft tissue infections. Crit Care Med 2004;32:1535-1541.

7. The new Clostridium difficile - What does it mean? N Engl J Med 2005;353:2503-2505.

8. Use of presumptive antibiotics following tube thoracostomy for traumatic hemopneumothorax in the prevention of empyema and pneumonia - a multi-center trial. J Trauma 2004;57:742-749.