Pediatricians on guard of children's health: empiric therapy, but not antibiotics
نویسندگان
چکیده
.
منابع مشابه
Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”
Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...
متن کاملEmpiric antibiotics therapy for mildly elevated prostate specific antigen: Helpful to avoid unnecessary biopsies?
PURPOSE The management of mildly elevated (4.0-10.0 ng/ml) prostate specific antigen (PSA) is uncertain. Immediate prostate biopsy, antibiotic treatment, or monitoring PSA level for 1-3 months is still in controversy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analysed the effect of empiric antibiotics on an increased PSA in a mono-institutional study. We analysed the data of 100 patients with ...
متن کاملComparative effectiveness of empiric antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Narrow-spectrum antibiotics are recommended as the first-line agent for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). There is little scientific evidence to support that this consensus-based recommendation is as effective as the more commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotics. The objective was to compare the effectiveness of empiric treatment with narrow...
متن کاملMicrobiology of infected arthroplasty: implications for empiric peri-operative antibiotics.
PURPOSE To classify the spectrum and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria isolated from infected hip and knee arthroplasty specimens, and to recommend appropriate empiric peri-operative antibiotics. METHODS From January 1999 to August 2006, specimens from revision hip and knee arthroplasties (with or without suspected infection) were routinely collected for identifying possible organisms and...
متن کاملCiprofloxacin does not inhibit mitochondrial functions but other antibiotics do.
At clinical concentrations, ciprofloxacin did not inhibit mitochondrial DNA replication, oxidative phosphorylation, protein synthesis, or mitochondrial mass (transmembrane potential). No difference in supercoiled forms of DNA was observed. The tetracyclines and chloramphenicol inhibited protein synthesis at clinically achievable concentrations, while rifampin, fusidic acid, and clindamycin did ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ?????????????? ????????????
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1727-5776', '2500-3089']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15690/vsp.v22i2.2546