Reported here is the case of a patient with septic shock due to multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which developed after complicated acute pancreatitis with intra-abdominal abscess. Treatment with colistin methanesulphonate and high doses of meropenem were initiated, but since shock persisted, tigecycline was added to the regimen, resulting in successful resolution of the infection.

Red cell distribution width (RDW) is a quantitative measure of the variability in size of erythrocytes and it is used for the differential diagnosis of anemia. Moreover, in critically ill patients, high RDW values have been associated with increased hospital mortality. No data on the impact of RDW on the outcome of patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest (CA) are available. Objectives To investigate whether RDW values are associated with outcome after CA.

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