Sentence examples for commenced antibiotics from inspiring English sources

The majority (n = 253, 94%) of patients commenced antibiotics on or before the day their positive culture was taken.

Exclusion criteria are: Diffuse peritonitis Antibiotic (penicillin) documented allergy Ongoing previously commenced antibiotic therapy Previous appendectomy Positive pregnancy test IBD history or suspicion of IBD reoccurrence.

Delay in diagnosis and management, especially in commencing antibiotics have also been found to correlate with poor outcomes [ 23].

One key question is whether to commence antibiotics before the full blood count and biochemistry are known.

These likely represent subclinical sites of infection that become evident secondary to reversal of M. ulcerans induced immune inhibition upon commencing antibiotics.

Participants had a high prevalence of dementia (63.3%) and given the high prevalence of bacteriuria in patients with cognitive impairment, altered mental status may not be a useful criterion for commencing antibiotics.

10 When a child presents with fever, the decision to commence antibiotics is based on a thorough clinical evaluation by the treating physician, supplemented by rapid tests such as a urine dipstick.

13 The DA service nurse encourages GPs to commence antibiotics on clinical suspicion of a UTI immediately after a diagnostic urine sample has been collected, and then to stop in culture-negative cases.

This time frame was chosen as studies have noted that the majority of incidents of AAD occur within the first 2 weeks of commencing antibiotics, 3 11 and we were concerned with the issue of compliance with data collection for a longer follow-up period.

Blood cultures (BD BACTEC™ Blood Culture System, Sparks, Maryland, USA) were obtained prior to commencing antibiotic therapy.

Guidelines suggest that catheters should be replaced prior to commencing antibiotic therapy in symptomatic catheterized patients if it has been in situ for longer than 1 week.