Probiotics


Indications

General Use in Critically Ill Patients

Recommendations-Probiotics (Society of Critical Care Medicine, SCCM, and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, ASPEN, 2016 Guidelines) [MEDLINE]

Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) (see Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia)

Clinical Efficacy

Recommendations (Adapted from the Society for Healthcare and Epidemiology of America, SHEA, Guidelines for the Prevention of VAP) (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 2014) [MEDLINE]

Prevention of Clostridium Difficile Colitis (see Clostridium Difficile)

Rationale

Clinical Efficacy

Recommendations (American College of Gastroenterology/ACG Guidelines) (Am J Gastroenterol, 2013) [MEDLINE]

Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Colitis (see Clostridium Difficile)

Clinical Efficacy


Agents


Adverse Effects

Gastrointestinal Adverse Effects

Intestinal Ischemia (see Acute Mesenteric Ischemia)

Infectious Adverse Effects

Bacteremia/Fungemia


References