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Published on: August 4, 2018

Safety of antimicrobial de-escalation for culture-negative severe pneumonia

Kwon Byoung Soo¹, Choi Sang Ho², Koh Younsuck³

¹Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea.

Journal of Critical Care

|July 19, 2019

Abstract

Purpose:

This study investigated the outcomes of antimicrobial de-escalation (ADE) based on mortality and the incidence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogen occurrence in patients with culture-negative pneumonia presenting with sepsis and septic shock.

Materials And Methods:

We retrospectively analyzed patients diagnosed with severe pneumonia requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission and possessing negative microbiological culture results at a tertiary referral hospital in South Korea from March 2008 to July 2018.

Results:

We identified 107 patients with culture-negative pneumonia. The Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) mean scores were 20.3 ± 8.6 and 9.6 ± 3.3, respectively. Among the patients, 40 (37.4%) underwent ADE. The APACHE II, SOFA, and follow-up SOFA scores did not differ significantly between the groups, and no differences were found in ICU mortality and MDR pathogen occurrence (27.5% vs 41.8%, P = .137 and 15.0% vs 16.9% P = .794, respectively).

Conclusions:

We observed similar ICU mortality and MDR pathogen occurrence in patients with culture-negative pneumonia presenting with sepsis/shock regardless of whether they received ADE. Additionally, ADE lowered the antimicrobial burden.

Keywords:

Antimicrobial Culture negative De-escalation Mortality Multi-drug resistance Pneumonia

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