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Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Infections are one of the more important problems in the intensive medicine services as admission reason or as a complication during stay, being one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Given this situation the trained intensive care staff must to be enough prepared with the knowledges as with the tools necessary for face such problem. With present paper we summarize the main features for a proper antimicrobial policy.

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