• Department of Emergency Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan 637000, P. R. China;
LIU Shiping, Email: 1994267167@qq.com
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Sepsis is not only a common critical disease , but also a common complication and cause of death of patients in intensive care unit. It has the characteristics of dangerous condition, rapid development and high mortality. How to treat sepsis to improve the prognosis and quality of life of patients is very important. Timely and reasonable anti-infection is a vatal part in the treatment of sepsis. This article will review the progress of anti-infective therapy in adult patients with sepsis, starting from empirical anti-infection, procalcitonin-guided anti-infection, bacterial culture combined drug sensitivity test-guided anti-infection and anti-infection with antimicrobial peptides, aiming to provide a certain basis and reference for the anti-infective treatment of adult sepsis.

Citation: SHEN Yihong, YANG Zhuo, LIU Shiping. Progress of anti-infection therapy in adult patients with sepsis. West China Medical Journal, 2021, 36(11): 1598-1602. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202109080 Copy

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