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Case Reports
. 2005 Feb;9(1):5-9.
doi: 10.1186/cc3016. Epub 2004 Dec 15.

Ethics roundtable debate: A patient dies from an ICU-acquired infection related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus--how do you defend your case and your team?

Jean-Louis Vincent  1 , Christian Brun-Buisson, Michael Niederman, Christian Haenni, Stephan Harbarth, Dominique Sprumont, Mauricio Valencia, Antoni Torres
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Ethics roundtable debate: A patient dies from an ICU-acquired infection related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus--how do you defend your case and your team?

Jean-Louis Vincent et al. Crit Care. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

An elderly patient dies from septic shock in the intensive care unit. This is perhaps not an unusual scenario, but in this case the sepsis happens to have been due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, possibly related to a catheter, and possibly transmitted from a patient in a neighbouring room by less than adequate compliance with infection control procedures. The family decides to sue. We present how experts from four different countries assess the medicolegal issues involved in this case.

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