This is the podcast Surgery I See Rounds. My name is Jeff Kye. Been absent for the past couple of weeks.

I've been really kind of overwhelmed at home and at work, and I'm trying to get back into getting these podcasts out at least on a once weekly basis.

Off at this time for minutes, I'll try to get a couple out in one week, or at least a couple of them recorded.

Those of you send me emails with feedback, I do appreciate that.

It does help to know that people are listening and do appreciate this,

and I do appreciate your dialogue and support.

Much to my better judgment, I'm doing this at home tonight, and I have five kids,

so at any point one of my crumb crunchers

might come bussing through the door and I apologize for that in advance.

The topic that I want to talk about today is antibiotic therapy and critical illness and the

source reference that I'm using for this is a chapter in the Adult Multi-Professional

Critical Care Review which was sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

I was a member of the faculty for this in Chicago a few weeks ago, and I was just really impressed with wanting

at the program that Jim Salados put together for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the brevity of the speakers by really hitting salient features of the topics

as well as the syllabus.

So if you have an opportunity to take that course, I'd certainly recommend it.

Antibiotic therapy in the ICU is something that's, I would imagine,

to the inexperience provider, namely a resident or fellow,

could really seem overwhelming.

What decides what antibiotics we're going to use?

Is it who's buying us lunch a particular day or a certain pen or drug rep?

I'd like to think it certainly doesn't.

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