Journal
SHOCK
Volume 39, Issue 7, Pages 29-31Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/SHK.0b013e31828faf02
Keywords
Antibiotic; de-escalation therapy
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De-escalation therapy is a term that suggests the need to reduce the spectrum or the number of antibiotics formerly prescribed for critical patients, upon clinical improvement and/or microorganism recovery. The major goal of this concept is the use of broad-spectrum antibiotic agents as initial drugs of choice for severe patients, instead of reserving the most potent agents after an inadequate clinical response, or after the microorganism is recovered. Despite possible commercial concerns and an unproven but possible relationship with enhancing global antibiotic use, the concept was correct and in accordance with scientific evidence. However, the de-escalation component of the concept is very seldom reported, and no large clinical trial on this issue is available until today. To definitely put in practice this concept, comparative large trials must be designed and sponsored to insert this strategy at the same level of evidence of wide initial empiric antibiotic treatments.
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