Anaerobic Antibiotic Usage for Pneumonia in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

Henry Ford Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pneumonia

Treatments: Drug: Antibiotics

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03046082

10229

Details and patient eligibility

About

Observation of prescription usage of anaerobic antibiotics for patients admitted to the ICU with pneumonia.

Full description

Pneumonia is a common admitting diagnosis in the intensive care unit (ICU). When aspiration is suspected, antibiotics to cover anaerobes are frequently used , but in the absence of clear risk factors, current guidelines have questioned their role. It is unknown how frequently these guidelines are followed.

Enrollment: 192 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ICU patients with diagnosis of pneumonia

Exclusion criteria

• patients with abdominal infections such as c diff.