PULMONARY AEROBIC BACTERIAL FLORA AFTER ASPIRATION PNEUMONITIS
- 1 November 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 15 (11) , 1014-1020
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-197511000-00012
Abstract
Preventive antibiotic therapy in patients with aspiration pneumonitis remains controversial. Observations from culture of bronchial secretions indicate that patients who aspire of gastric contents whould receive antibiotics prophylactically only if there is another infective focus present or strongly suspected. Otherwise antibiotics should be withheld until clinically or radiologically indicated.Keywords
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