If a Patient with a Bacteremia Is Receiving Appropriate Antimicrobial

question 20

Multiple Choice

If a patient with a bacteremia is receiving appropriate antimicrobial therapy for a known infection but is not responding to treatment, how does the physician find out if another organism is causing the problem?

• A) Redraw the blood cultures.
• B) Redraw the blood cultures using an antimicrobial removal device.
• C) Switch the patient to another agent that will resolve the clinical symptoms.
• D) Perform hemodialysis to remove the organisms from the patient's blood.

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