Journal of Perioperative & Critical Intensive Care Nursing
Open Access

Abstract

Possible Role of Integrase Inhibitors in the Management of Untreated HIV-Infected Subjects in Intensive Care Units

Amedeo F Capetti* and Giuliano Rizzardini

The introduction HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitors may help reduce the risk of acquiring the infection by the operators as well of developing complications by the patients, in case of admission of untreated HIV-1-infected subjects with potentially dangerous viremia, suppressing plasma HIV RNA concentrations by 10 folds every 3 days.