Early antibiotics use in young infants with invasive bacterial infection visiting emergency department, a single medical center's experience

• Main Authors: Ying-Hsien Huang (Author), Jia-Huei Yan (Author), Kuang-Che Kuo (Author), Wei-Ting Wu (Author), Chih-Min Su (Author), I-Min Chiu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) recommends that intravenous antimicrobials be administered within one hour to treat sepsis in both adult and pediatric patients. However, most studies on the timing of antibiotics have been based on adults so far. Therefore, the goal of this study was...