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Secondary Complications Due to Unnecessary Antibiotic Use
Valerie Vaughn, MD MSc
Assistant Professor
Director of Hospital Medicine Research
Learn more about implementing procalcitonin testing
in your hospital.
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Case Study | When can I safely stop antibiotics?
Learn how procalcitonin was used to aid antibiotic discontinuation in a patient with a bacterial infection that led to sepsis.
Takeaway #1
Antibiotic therapy can cause superinfection with C. difficile that can result in life-threatening side effects
Takeaway #2
Early PCT determination could have decreased the time on antibiotics as it has a high NPV for bacterial infection.
Takeaway #3
PCT has a high predictive value for negative blood cultures with a much shorter TAT than the blood culture itself.
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