Empiric therapy is a medical term referring to the initiation of treatment prior to determination of a firm diagnosis. It is most often used when antibiotics are given to a person before the specific microorganism causing an infection is known. Examples of this include antibiotics given for pneumonia and urinary tract infections. Jump to: navigation, search Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body organ system|systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge. ... Treatment may refer to: // Health Therapy - the act of remediation of a health problem. ... An antibiotic is a drug that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. ... Jump to: navigation, search A microorganism or microbe is an organism that is so small that it is microscopic (invisible to the naked eye). ... An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pneumonia fills the lungs alveoli with fluid, keeping oxygen from reaching the bloodstream. ... A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection of the urinary tract. ...
Empiric antibiotics are typically broad-spectrum, in that they treat a wide variety of possible microorganisms. When more information is known (as from a blood culture), treatment may be changed to a different antibiotic which more specifically targets the microorganism known to be causing disease. Blood culture is microbiological culture of blood. ... Jump to: navigation, search A microorganism or microbe is an organism that is so small that it is microscopic (invisible to the naked eye). ...
Of 139 patients started on therapy presumptively, 66 (48%) were determined to have current tuberculosis (16 had positive cultures, 43 because of improvement in their chest films, and 7 because of clinical improvement).
Presumptive therapy is of benefit in that it stops progression of the disease at an early stage and decreases the potential for spread of tuberculous infection.
Thus we began in January 1980 to discontinue therapy at 4 months when there was sufficient evidence of a paucity of bacilli demonstrated by at least three negative smears and cultures for TB at the start of therapy.
Empirictherapy is a medical term referring to the initiation of treatment prior to determination of a firm diagnosis.
Empiricantibiotics are typically broad-spectrum, in that they treat a wide variety of possible microorganisms.
When more information is known (as from a blood culture), treatment may be changed to a different antibiotic which more specifically targets the microorganism known to be causing disease.
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