Preventive Use of Antibiotics Cuts ICU Deaths
Dutch researchers admit more review is needed on potential antibiotic resistance. Giving people antibiotics before they were admitted to a hospital intensive care unit led to a drop in patient deaths, a new Dutch study found.
The findings should settle a long-running debate on whether the use of antibiotics as a preventive measure for intensive care patients offsets the risk of possible antibiotic resistance, said study author Dr. Anne Marie de Smet, an anesthesiologist-intensivist at University Medical Center Utrecht.
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