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1013. If Blood Cultures Were Not Done Before Starting Antibiotics, Is It of Any Value to Obtain Them Later?

BACKGROUND: Obtaining blood cultures before starting antibiotics is one of the pillars of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), and delay in obtaining blood cultures (BC) after starting antibiotics is associated with increased mortality (Levy M 2015, Pruinelli L 2018), but we were unable to find data...

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Autores principales: Rand, Kenneth, Beal, Stacy, Allen, Brandon, Payton, Thomas, Lipori, Gloria, Rivera, Kimberly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255506/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.850