empirical treatment

An empirical treatment to relieve his extreme discomfort was necessitated."

The effect is unexpected, and no theoretical basis is known to the author - hence the empirical treatment.

Empirical treatment should generally be started in a patient in whom suspicion of diphtheria is high.

This first treatment, based on statistical information about former patients, and aimed at a large group of potentially involved microbes, is called empirical treatment.

It has been proposed as the first-line drug of choice for empirical treatment of acute cystitis.

Later on, as the machine was revised, we could include some sort of empirical treatment of the edge effect-the limit of our field, I mean.

Often, empirical treatment is required if the diagnostic suspicion of a porphyria is high since acute attacks can be fatal.

It should not be used as empirical treatment for hospital-acquired infections because of its lack of activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Empirical treatment is a medical treatment not derived from the scientific method, but derived from observation, survey or common use.

The Infectious Disease Society of America however recommends against empirical treatment and considers antibiotics only appropriate following positive testing.

For instance, in the United Kingdom empirical treatment consists of a third-generation cefalosporin such as cefotaxime or ceftriaxone.

Such information may be useful to the clinician, who can change the empirical treatment, to a more custom-tailored treatment that is directed only at the causative bacterium.

Empirical treatment should also be considered if a lumbar puncture, to collect CSF for laboratory testing, cannot be done within 30 minutes of admission to hospital.

Diagnostic tests (sputum Gram stain and culture) are likely to be of high yield for these pathogens, allowing early discontinuation of empirical treatment if results are negative.

Finally the dependence on the exposure is a property of the optical RAM; the author knows no theoretical basis for that either, and again an empirical treatment has been applied.

Cefepime is usually reserved to treat moderate-severe nosocomial pneumonia, infections caused by multi-resistant microorganisms (e.g. Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and empirical treatment of febrile neutropenia.

Empirical treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics is usually necessary until it is known for certain which pathogen is causing the infection, and to which antibiotics it is sensitive.

"We do it as an empirical treatment when we don't know what's causing infertility or when patients have a cervical problem, such as when they don't produce enough mucus," she said.

'It is an empirical treatment, rather than a scientifically-established one,' says Larry Gostin of the charity, MIND, No one knows how ECT exerts its effects.

Specifically, the presence of nitrite and white blood cells on a urine test strip in patients with typical symptoms are sufficient for the diagnosis of pyelonephritis, and are an indication for empirical treatment.

Clinicians should use empirical treatment with influenza antiviral medications for persons hospitalized with suspected influenza, and for suspected influenza infection of any severity in high-risk individuals, regardless of influenza immunization status.

Chloramphenicol has been used in the U.S. in the initial empirical treatment of children with fever and a petechial rash, when the differential diagnosis includes both Neisseria meningitidis septicaemia as well as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pending the results of diagnostic investigations.

The accepted management of unstable angina and acute coronary syndrome is therefore empirical treatment with aspirin, a second platelet inhibitor such as clopidogrel, prasugrel or ticagrelor, and heparin (usually a low-molecular weight heparin such as enoxaparin), with intravenous glyceryl trinitrate and opioids if the pain persists.