نتایج جستجو برای: empirical therapy

تعداد نتایج: 853353  

Journal: :Critical Care 2009
Younghoon Kwon Eric B Milbrandt Sachin Yende

Intervention: Using a 2-by-2 factorial design, subjects were randomly assigned to a) undergo bronchoalveolar lavage with quantitative culture of the bronchoalveolar-lavage fluid or endotracheal aspiration with nonquantitative culture of the aspirate, and to b) receive empirical combination antibiotic therapy or monotherapy. Empirical antibiotic therapy was initiated in all patients until cultur...

Journal: :Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2013
Dana R Bowers Yi-Xin Liew David C Lye Andrea L Kwa Li-Yang Hsu Vincent H Tam

Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia is associated with high hospital mortality. Empirical combination therapy is commonly used to increase the likelihood of appropriate therapy, but the benefits of employing >1 active agent have yet to be established. The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes of patients receiving appropriate empirical combination versus monotherapy for P. aeruginosa bact...

2014
Rémi Bruyère Jean-Pierre Quenot Sébastien Prin Frédéric Dalle Clara Vigneron Serge Aho Cristobal Leon Pierre-Emmanuel Charles

BACKGROUND Invasive candidiasis (IC) is a life-threatening ICU-acquired infection. A strong correlation between time to antifungal therapy (AFT) administration and outcome has been established. Empirical therapy benefit should be balanced with the risk of echinocandin overuse. We assessed therefore a decision rule that aimed at guiding empirical therapy. METHODS A 45-month prospective cohort ...

2015
Monica Fung Jane Kim Francisco M. Marty Michaël Schwarzinger Sophia Koo David N Fredricks

BACKGROUND Invasive fungal disease (IFD) causes significant morbidity and mortality in hematologic malignancy patients with high-risk febrile neutropenia (FN). These patients therefore often receive empirical antifungal therapy. Diagnostic test-guided pre-emptive antifungal therapy has been evaluated as an alternative treatment strategy in these patients. METHODS We conducted an electronic se...

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