Blood Culture and Pleural Fluid Culture Yields in Pediatric Empyema Patients
Christina T. Stankey(Yale University), Alicen B. Spaulding(Children's Minnesota), Angela A. Doucette(Children's Minnesota), Karen E. S. Hamre(Children's Minnesota), William E. Wheeler, William F. Pomputius, Stephen C. Kurachek(Children's Minnesota)
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Abstract
Empyema is a complication of community-acquired pneumonia. We conducted a retrospective analysis of empyema patients discharged from 1996 to 2016, examining culture results according to timing of antibiotic administration. Blood culture decreased from 45% to 4% after antibiotics, and pleural fluid culture yield decreased from 67% to 30%. More than half of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cases occurred from 2011 to 2016.
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