Management of Sepsis: The PIRO Approach

1. PIRO: The Key to Success?
Jean-Louis Vincent

2. Risk Stratification in Server Sepsis: Organ Failure scores or PIRO?
Rui P. Moreno, Ana Cristina Diogo, Susana Afonso

3. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Management Based on the PIRO System. A New Therapeutic Paradigm
Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Jordi Rello

4. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia PIRO Score
Emili Díaz, Thiago Lisboa

5. A PIRO-Based Approach for Severity Assessment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Thiago Lisboa, Alejandro Rodríguez, Jordi Rello

6. Real-Time PCR in Microbiology: From Diagnosis to Characterization
Malte Book, Lutz Eric Lehmann, Xiang Hong Zhang, Frank Stueber

7. Influence of Serotype in Pneumococcal Disease: A New Challenge for Vaccination
Manel Luján, Yolanda Belmonte, Dionisia Fontanals

8. Acute Kidney Injury and Extracorporeal Blood Purification in Sepsis
Javier Maynar Moliner, José Ángel Sánchez-Izquierdo Riera, Manuel Herrera Gutiérrez, Amaia Quintano Rodero, Alberto Manzano Ramirez

9. Immunoglobulin, Sepsis, and Pneumonia
Jordi Almirall, Ester Vendrell, Javier Gracia

10. Coagulation Disorders in Sepsis
Marcel Schouten, Tom Poll

11. Antibiotics in Severe Sepsis: Which Combinations Work?
Tobias Welte

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Pneumology/Respiratory System, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine