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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: 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? | Available online http ccforum.eom content 9 1 5 Commentary 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 Vincent1 Christian Brun-Buisson2 Michael Niederman3 Christian Haenni4 Stephan Harbarth5 Dominique Sprumont6 Mauricio Valencia7 Antoni Torres8 1 Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Free University of Brussels Belgium 2Reanimation Medicale Hopital Henri Mondor AP-HP Cretiel France 3Chairman Department of Medicine Winthrop University Hospital Professor of Medicine Vice-Chairman Department of Medicine SUNY at Stony Brook New York USA 4Fellow Institut de droit de la santé Université de Neuchâtel Switzerland 5Associate Hospital Epidemiologist Infection Control Program Geneva University Hospitals Geneva Switzerland 6Co-Director Institut de droit de la santé Université de Neuchâtel Switzerland 7Senior Researcher Intensive Care Medicine Institut Clìnic de Pneumología i Cirurgia Toràcica ICPCT Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Barcelona Spain 8Director Institut Clinic de Pneumología i Cirurgia Toràcica ICPCT Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Barcelona Spain Correspondence Critical Care Forum Editorial Office editorial@ccforum.com Published online 15 December 2004 This article is online at http ccforum.com content 9 1 5 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2005 9 5-9 DOI 10.1186 cc3016 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. Keywords infection control procedures .
