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Christian Brun-Buisson

Christian Brun-Buisson

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Medicine

D-Index
110
Citations
63017
World Ranking
5440
National Ranking
157

Overview

Christian Brun-Buisson is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France and has a research profile focused on medicine, with significant contributions to epidemiology, applied microbiology and biotechnology, and critical care and intensive care medicine. Their work spans several subfields including general health professions and molecular medicine.

The main topics covered by their research include pneumonia and respiratory infections, antibiotic use and resistance, urinary tract infections management, sepsis diagnosis and treatment, nosocomial infections in intensive care units, patient satisfaction in healthcare, and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Critical Care
  • Antibiotics
  • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
  • Journal of Infection

Recent scientific papers associated with their research are:

  • "Effect of Probiotics on Incident Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients" (2021, JAMA)
  • "Aspiration Risk Factors, Microbiology, and Empiric Antibiotics for Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia" (2020, CHEST Journal)
  • "Outpatient Antibiotic Prescriptions in France: Patients and Providers Characteristics and Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2022, Antibiotics)
  • "Hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone for community acquired pneumonia-related septic shock: a subgroup analysis of the APROCCHSS phase 3 randomised trial" (2024, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
  • "Bacterial etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hospitalized patients and appropriateness of empirical treatment recommendations: an international point-prevalence study" (2020, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases)

Christian Brun-Buisson has frequently collaborated with colleagues including Laurence Watier, Didier Guillemot, Milena Encheva, Muriel Fartoukh, and Marion Opatowski.

Best Publications

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008.

    R. Phillip Dellinger;Mitchell M. Levy;Jean M. Carlet;Julian Bion

  • Complications of Femoral and Subclavian Venous Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Jacques Merrer;Bernard De Jonghe;Franck Golliot;Jean-Yves Lefrant

  • Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of severe sepsis and septic shock in adults. A multicenter prospective study in intensive care units. French ICU Group for Severe Sepsis.

    Christian Brun-Buisson;Françoise Doyon;Jean Carlet;Pierre Dellamonica

  • Incidence of and Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients

    Deborah J. Cook;Stephen D. Walter;Richard J. Cook;Lauren E. Griffith

  • Epidemiology of sepsis and infection in ICU patients from an international multicentre cohort study.

    Corinne Alberti;Christian Brun-Buisson;Hilmar Burchardi;Claudio Martin

  • Use of procalcitonin to reduce patients' exposure to antibiotics in intensive care units (PRORATA trial): a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

    Lila Bouadma;Charles-Edouard Luyt;Florence Tubach;Christophe Cracco

  • The Attributable Morbidity and Mortality of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Critically Ill Patient

    Daren K. Heyland;Deborah J. Cook;Lauren Griffith;Sean P. Keenan

  • Tidal Volume Reduction for Prevention of Ventilator-induced Lung Injury in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

    Brochard L;Roudot-Thoraval F;Roupie E;Delclaux C

  • Epidemiology and outcome of acute lung injury in European intensive care units. Results from the ALIVE study.

    Christian Brun-Buisson;Cosetta Minelli;Guido Bertolini;Luca Brazzi

  • Reversal of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease by inspiratory assistance with a face mask.

    Laurent Brochard;Daniel Isabey;Jacques Piquet;Piedade Amaro

  • The epidemiology of the systemic inflammatory response

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  • Evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

    Peter Dodek;Sean Keenan;Deborah Cook;Daren Heyland

  • EPISEPSIS: a reappraisal of the epidemiology and outcome of severe sepsis in French intensive care units.

    C Brun-Buisson;P Meshaka;P Pinton;B Vallet

  • Hydrocortisone plus Fludrocortisone for Adults with Septic Shock

    Djillali Annane;Alain Renault;Christian Brun-Buisson;Bruno Megarbane

  • Diagnosis of Central Venous Catheter-Related Sepsis: Critical Level of Quantitative Tip Cultures

    Christian Brun-Buisson;Fekri Abrouk;Patrick Legrand;Yann Huet

  • Association of Noninvasive Ventilation With Nosocomial Infections and Survival in Critically Ill Patients

    Emmanuelle Girou;Frédérique Schortgen;Christophe Delclaux;Christian Brun-Buisson

  • Zika Virus Associated with Meningoencephalitis

    Guillaume Carteaux;Marianne Maquart;Alexandre Bedet;Damien Contou

  • Etomidate versus ketamine for rapid sequence intubation in acutely ill patients: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

    Patricia Jabre;Patricia Jabre;Xavier Combes;Frederic Lapostolle;Mohamed Dhaouadi

  • Complications of Femoral and Subclavian Venous Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients

    Jacques Merrer;Bernard De Jonghe;Franck Golliot;Jean-Yves Lefrant

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 (Intensive Care Medicine (2008) 34, (17-60))

    R. Phillip Dellinger;Mitchell M. Levy;Jean M. Carlet;Julian Bion

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard St. Michael's Hospital
Marc J. M. Bonten
Marc J. M. Bonten Utrecht University
Serge Adnot
Serge Adnot Paris-Est Créteil University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Elie Azoulay
Elie Azoulay Université Paris Cité
Stefano Nava
Stefano Nava University of Bologna
Michael R. Pinsky
Michael R. Pinsky University of Pittsburgh
Jean Carlet
Jean Carlet St. Joseph Hospital
Alain Harf
Alain Harf Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Chosidow
Olivier Chosidow Université Paris Cité

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