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Table 4. Recommended Initial Empiric Antibiotic Therapy for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (Non-Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia) #Management #InfectiousDiseases #Empiric #Antibiotics
Recommended Initial Empiric ... Antibiotic Therapy ... ) #Management #InfectiousDiseases ... #Empiric #Antibiotics
IDSA Recommendations for empirical antimicrobial therapy for purulent meningitis based on patient age and specific predisposing
Recommendations for empirical ... IDSA #Meningitis #Antibiotics ... Antimicrobials #Empiric ... #Coverage #InfectiousDiseases
Table 3. Suggested Empiric Treatment Options for Clinically Suspected Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Units Where Empiric Methicillin-Resistant
Suggested Empiric ... in Units Where Empiric ... Appropriate #Management #InfectiousDiseases ... #Empiric #Antibiotics
Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
Antibiotics for ... selecting the best empiric ... #antibiogram #antibiotics ... antimicrobials #infectiousdiseases
Suspected catheter-related bloodstream infection - Management Algorithm
 • Temperature 37.8 C   • Rigors
circuit and start empiric ... antibiotics Antibiotic ... Responds quickly to empiric ... improvement after empiric ... Algorithm #CRBSI #diagnosis
Coverage of common antibiotics used in the hospital

For empiric coverage, first define the type of infection,
Coverage of common antibiotics ... hospital For empiric ... #management #infectiousdisease ... #antibiotics
Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Treatment: • Empiric ... antibiotics ... Lung #Abscess #Diagnosis
Approach to Suspected Meningitis - Empiric Management Algorithm

 • Alarm Symptoms (FAILS)
 • Empiric Antibiotics
 •
Suspected Meningitis - Empiric ... Symptoms (FAILS) • Empiric ... Antibiotics • ... Meningitis #Management #diagnosis
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP) - Diagnosis and Management
Ascites PMN > 250/mm3
? Nosocomial or hospital acquired. Recent
Peritonitis (SBP) - Diagnosis ... Recent exposure to antibiotics ... - 2 days after empirical ... antibiotic therapy ... Peritonitis #SBP #Diagnosis
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
hospitalization or antibiotics ... men Consider empiric ... antibiotic therapy ... algorithm #workup #diagnosis