Sentence examples for unnecessary prophylactic from inspiring English sources

As a result, some women may be overtreated by undergoing unnecessary prophylactic mastectomies, whereas others may be undertreated and end up developing breast cancer.

Exposure to Mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT) may lead to false-positive results, and poor specificity of the tests may lead to unnecessary prophylactic treatment with anti-tuberculosis drugs.

While early antifungal treatment has been suggested to improve clinical outcome of this life-threatening complication, timely prospective identification of patients who need pre-emptive therapy aimed at minimizing both mortality and unnecessary prophylactic or empirical use of antifungals remains a major challenge for ICU physicians [ 6].

In Europe, smaller owners are not willing to pay vet bills for unnecessary or prophylactic treatment.

Therefore, unnecessary routine prophylactic insertion of the transvenous pacing lead should be avoided.

Conversely, a false positive alarm has negative consequences associated with the unnecessary use of prophylactic antibiotics, namely the cost incurred and the adverse effects of the medication.

Inappropriate spectrum was defined if a child received antibiotics inconsistent with the standard guideline, or more expensive, broader spectrum antibiotics than the recommendation, or was exposed to unnecessary therapeutic or prophylactic antibiotics.

The spontaneous remission within a few hours made prophylactic therapy unnecessary.

This technique yielded low rates of peristomal infection and made unnecessary the use of prophylactic antibiotics.

Furthermore, reports from the USA indicate that a tick bite may lead to costly and unnecessary serologic testing or prophylactic antibiotic therapy[ 17, 18].

It can be performed under radiological [ 7] or endoscopic [ 2, 8- 13] guidance and also offers the great advantage of low risk of peristomal infection, which renders the use of prophylactic antibiotics unnecessary [ 7, 8, 14].