Question

how is empiric antimicrobial therapy is selected??

Answer 1

Empiric antimicrobial therapy is the therapy given based on the experiences when the complete data or the information is not available to treat or diagnose. This will help overall to reduce the moratality and morbidity of the infectious process.

The antimicrobial therapy is selected by:

* this would include when the individual comes with the symptoms which cannot be diagnosed and can be done based on the patients risk factors of getting it.

* the patients recent exposure to any of the antibiotics.

* comorbidities

* the potential sources of acquiring the infection

* patients history of any drug allergy or antibiotic resistance.

By keeping these into the practice the practioners identify the related infection and the process sooner and provide treatment which includes the broad spectrum antibiotics involving the both positive and negative bacterial sensitive.