Empirical antibiotic therapy
Antibiotic resistance of urinary tract pathogens and rationale for empirical antibiotic therapy in children with urinary tract infection
... therapy ideally be supported by local epidemiological services at each institution to increase the likelihood of therapeutic success, 1 as the etiology of community acquired UTI, and their antibiotic ...
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Risk factors for multidrug resistant bacteria and optimization of empirical antibiotic therapy in postoperative peritonitis
... or antibiotic therapy within three months before S0; characteristics of S0, if performed in another institution, its type, route and wound class [12]; and use of ...
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Does nonadherence to local recommendations for empirical antibiotic therapy on admission to the intensive care unit have an impact on in-hospital mortality?
... The following data were systematically recorded: date and time of admission, age, gender, prior hospitalization in the previous year, origin of the patient, ongoing antimicrobial chemotherapy on admission and eventual ...
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Duration of Initial Empirical Antibiotic Therapy and Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
... early antibiotic use, we further excluded death or discharge to a level II hospital within the fi rst 7 days of birth ( n = 1303), spontaneous intestinal perforation or NEC within the fi rst 7 days, or an unknown ...
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Pharyngitis in Low-Resources Settings: A Pragmatic Clinical Approach to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use
... Bacterial culture and rapid tests are not available for common infections in public hospitals of Brazil (for structural and cost reasons). Like many other public institutions in developing countries, all children with ...
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A cost analysis of a broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy in the empirical treatment of health care-associated infections in cirrhotic patients
... standard antibiotic therapy with broad-spectrum empirical antibiotic therapy in cirrhotic patients with HCA ...standard therapy (12% vs 31%; p< ...on antibiotic ...
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Management of Neonates Born at ≥35 0/7 Weeks’ Gestation With Suspected or Proven Early-Onset Bacterial Sepsis
... evidence-based intrapartum antimicrobial therapy. However, EOS remains a serious and potentially fatal illness. Laboratory tests alone are neither sensitive nor specific enough to guide EOS management decisions. ...
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Aminoglycoside therapy for childhood urinary tract infection due to extended spectrum β lactamase producing Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae
... The empirical aminoglycosides were administered for a median of ...of empirical aminoglycosides was discontinued during hospitalisation for 16 ...the antibiotic susceptibility results, and it was ...
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Comparative study on prophylactic antibiotic versus empirical antibiotic in prevention of surgical site infection
... The study is a prospective observational study conducted in Govt. headquarters hospital Tirupur from October 2017 to august 2018. A predesigned structured ‘Proforma’ is used to collect the relevant data including; ...
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Impact of empirical treatment in extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp bacteremia A multicentric cohort study
... to empirical antibiotic therapy this is relevant because an effect of adequacy related with the origin of infection has been previously detected [25], and suggested by our ...
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Monitoring Antibiotics and Inflammatory Markers in Human Blood: Impact in Choice of Antibiotic Therapy and Used Methods
... of antibiotic chemotherapeutic drugs includes eleven classes, distinguished on the basis of chemical structure ...For antibiotic therapy, antibiotic drugs are ...inadequate empirical ...
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Advances in antibiotic therapy in the critically ill
... combined therapy over monotherapy ...different antibiotic regimens in different patient populations, mak- ing it difficult to generalize the ...combination therapy for the 50 studies included, when ...
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Antibiotic-associated diarrhea: a systematic review with two decades of experience
... • Elaboration of toxins by intestinal flora and production of enzyme, beta lactamase, by resistant organisms, which inactivate antibiotics and facilitate growth of C. difficile. Until recently, it was held that C. ...
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The Association of Third-Generation Cephalosporin Use and Invasive Candidiasis in Extremely Low Birth-Weight Infants
... Risk factors for invasive candidiasis in individual infants were assessed. Results from the logistic regression are depicted in Table 2. Treatment with BSAs was associated with an increased risk of invasive candidiasis. ...
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Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of Mycobacterium kansasii Lung Disease in Korea
... received antibiotic therapy including isoniazid, rifampin, and ...biotic therapy for a median of 6 months (IQR 2-10 months) and two patients died of causes unrelated to ...during antibiotic ...
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Comparing appropriateness of antibiotics for nursing home residents by setting of prescription initiation: a cross-sectional analysis
... into antibiotic prescribing appropriateness for NH residents by ...of antibiotic starts occurring in the ED and outpatient clinic setting as compared to the NHs is also a ...of antibiotic selection ...
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Relationship between frequency, length, and treatment outcome of exacerbations to baseline lung function and lung density in alpha-1 antitrypsin-deficient COPD
... Results: The patients (n = 23) had a mean age of 52.5 years, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV 1 ) of 1.2 L (38.4% predicted), corrected gas transfer (KCO) of 0.90 mmol/min/kPa/L (59.7% predicted), and 15th ...
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CURRENT STATUS OF COMBINED ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY
... ably less active against staphylococci than other antibiotics to which they were sus- ceptible, strains with high degrees of resist- ance to chloramphenicob have been quite infrequent-pr[r] ...
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Improvement of antibiotic therapy and ICU survival in severe non pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia: a matched case–control study
... due to Legionella pneumophila and Pseudomonas aerugi- nosa was lower. In case of Legionella infection the treat- ment was adequate in 86.7 % of patients from the CAPUCI I and II groups. On the other hand, treatment was ...
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The novel use of oral antibiotic monotherapy in prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Finegoldia magna: a case study
... oral antibiotic therapy in a patient with an anaerobic infective endocarditis could also be satisfactory, but further research is required to prove if this statement could be substantiated with clinical ...
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