PG17 Clinical failure of treatment of respiratory infections

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: G. Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece), G. Rohde (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Aims: To describe the frequency and risk factors for treatment failure in lower respiratory tract infections. To provide insight into strategies directed to reduce the treatment failure in a variety of different respiratory infections in the adult.

HERMES module links: ADULT - B.1 Airway diseases, B.3 Non-TB respiratory infections.

The role of increasing bacterial resistance H. Goossens (Edegem, Belgium)
Treatment failure of community-acquired pneumonia: risk factors and consequences A. Torres (Barcelona, Spain)
Treatment failure of severe and ventilator-associated pneumonia T. Welte (Hanover, Germany)
Treatment failure of infective exacerbations of COPD A. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America)