Christian Brun-Buisson

Brachyspira pilosicolibloodstream infections: Case report and review of the literature (2008)

Bait-Merabet, Lilia, Thille, Arnaud, Legrand, Patrick, Brun-Buisson, Christian, Cattoir, Vincent

Abstract Brachyspira pilosicoli is the etiologic agent of human and animal intestinal spirochetosis and is rarely implicated as a cause of bacteremia. Here, we describe the case of a B. pilosicoli...

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? (2004)

Vincent, Jean-Louis, Brun-Buisson, Christian, Niederman, Michael, Haenni, Christian, Harbarth, Stephan, Sprumont, Dominique, ...

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...

Usefulness of Routine Epicardial Pacing Wire Culture for Early Prediction of Poststernotomy Mediastinitis

Mekontso-Dessap, Armand, Honoré, Stéphanie, Kirsch, Matthias, Houël, Rémi, Loisance, Daniel, Brun-Buisson, Christian

Poststernotomy mediastinitis (PSM) is one of the most serious complications of cardiac surgery, and its associated morbidity and mortality demand early recognition for emergency therapy. In this...

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?

Vincent, Jean-Louis, Brun-Buisson, Christian, Niederman, Michael, Haenni, Christian, Harbarth, Stephan, Sprumont, Dominique, ...

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...

Usefulness of Routine Epicardial Pacing Wire Culture for Early Prediction of Poststernotomy Mediastinitis

Mekontso-Dessap, Armand, Honoré, Stéphanie, Kirsch, Matthias, Houël, Rémi, Loisance, Daniel, Brun-Buisson, Christian

Poststernotomy mediastinitis (PSM) is one of the most serious complications of cardiac surgery, and its associated morbidity and mortality demand early recognition for emergency therapy. In this...

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?

Vincent, Jean-Louis, Brun-Buisson, Christian, Niederman, Michael, Haenni, Christian, Harbarth, Stephan, Sprumont, Dominique, ...

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...

Preventing ventilator associated pneumonia

Brun-Buisson, Christian

Oral antiseptic agents should be part of a multifaceted preventive care package

A Model to Compute the Medical Cost of Patients in Intensive Care

Carine Chaix, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Corinne Alberti, Christian Brun-Buisson

Objective: Our objective was to identify, among the information routinely collected on patients in intensive care units (ICUs), data that determine the total cost for a given patient. Design: We...

Brachyspira pilosicoli bloodstream infections: Case report and review of the literature

Bait-Merabet, Lilia, Thille, Arnaud, Legrand, Patrick, Brun-Buisson, Christian, Cattoir, Vincent

Brachyspira pilosicoli is the etiologic agent of human and animal intestinal spirochetosis and is rarely implicated as a cause of bacteremia. Here, we describe the case of a B. pilosicoli...