Predictors of Bloodstream Infection in Patients Presenting With Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Pocket Infection.
Zerelda Esquer GarrigosMerit P GeorgeSarwat KhalilPrakhar VijayvargiyaOmar M Abu SalehPaul A FriedmanJames M SteckelbergDaniel C DeSimoneWalter R WilsonLarry M BaddourM Rizwan SohailPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2019)
Patients with CIED pocket infection who meet systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria and/or are hypotensive at admission are more likely to have underlying BSI and should be started on empiric antibiotics after blood cultures are obtained. If these features are absent, it may be reasonable to withhold empiric antibiotics to optimize yield of pocket/device cultures during extraction.