Empiric antimicrobial therapy for early-onset pneumonia in severe trauma patients.
Mael GennequinDelphine BacheletPhilippine EloyJean-Denis MoyerAntoine RoquillyTobias GaussEmmanuel WeissArnaud FoucrierPublished in: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society (2022)
Simple risk factors may help clinicians to identify severe trauma patients at high risk of pneumonia treatment failure with the use of narrow-spectrum antimicrobial therapy and, thus, use better tailored empiric therapy and limit the use of unnecessary broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy.