If a Patient with a Bacteremia Is Receiving Appropriate Antibiotics

question 15

Multiple Choice

If a patient with a bacteremia is receiving appropriate antibiotics 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 antibiotic removal device (ARD).
• C)Switch the patient to another antibiotic that will resolve the clinical symptoms.
• D)Perform hemodialysis to remove the organisms from the patient's blood.

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