title: Management of infections in critically ill returning travellers in the intensive care unit-II: clinical syndromes and special considerations in immunocompromised patients.
abstract: This position paper is the second ESCMID Consensus Document on this subject and aims to provide intensivists, infectious disease specialists, and emergency physicians with a standardized approach to the management of serious travel-related infections in the intensive care unit (ICU) or the emergency department. This document is a cooperative effort between members of two European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) study groups and was coordinated by Hakan Leblebicioglu and Jordi Rello for ESGITM (ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Travellers and Migrants) and ESGCIP (ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Critically Ill Patients), respectively. A relevant expert on the subject of each section prepared the first draft which was then edited and approved by additional members from both ESCMID study groups. This article summarizes considerations regarding clinical syndromes requiring ICU admission in travellers, covering immunocompromised patients.
authors.affiliation: CIBERES, Vall Hebron Research Institute, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rello
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Service and Transplantation Centre, BH 10/553, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: oriol.manuel@chuv.ch.
authors.forename: Oriol
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Manuel
authors.affiliation: Department of Adult Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eggimann
authors.affiliation: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wejse
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jorgen Eskild
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zacharowski
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease Department, Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School, Samsun, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leblebicioglu
mesh_terms: D016638:Critical Illness; D003715:Dengue / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D007239:Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000628:therapy; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008288:Malaria / Q000628:therapy; D009181:Mycoses / Q000628:therapy; D014195:Travel
keywords: Immunocompromised; Intensive care; Migrants; Pneumonia; Travellers