In sepsis, antibiotics reduced yield of blood cultures by almost 40%
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by Molly Walker, Associate Editor, MedPage Today If you want an accurate reading from sepsis patients' blood cultures, don't start antibiotics until you've drawn the blood samples, a new study suggested. Among patients with severe sepsis, blood cultures taken prior to antibiotic therapy were positive for one or more microbial pathogens in 31.4% of patients compared with 19.4% of patients for cultures taken after empirical antibiotic treatment had already started, reported Matthew Cheng, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues, in
In sepsis, antibiotics reduced yield of blood cultures by almost 40%
In sepsis, antibiotics reduced yield of blood…
In sepsis, antibiotics reduced yield of blood cultures by almost 40%
by Molly Walker, Associate Editor, MedPage Today If you want an accurate reading from sepsis patients' blood cultures, don't start antibiotics until you've drawn the blood samples, a new study suggested. Among patients with severe sepsis, blood cultures taken prior to antibiotic therapy were positive for one or more microbial pathogens in 31.4% of patients compared with 19.4% of patients for cultures taken after empirical antibiotic treatment had already started, reported Matthew Cheng, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues, in