Pediatr Infect Vaccine.  2018 Aug;25(2):91-100. 10.14776/piv.2018.25.e5.

The Factors Affecting the Use of Empirical Antibiotics in Febrile Infants from 1 Month to Less than 3 Months

• Byun JH
• Song BK
• Kim YA
• Ko H
• Yoo SD
• Lim TJ
• Park SE

• KMID: 2418541
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14776/piv.2018.25.e5

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study investigated the factors affecting the use of empirical antibiotics in febrile infants from 1 month to less than 3 months.
METHODS
We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of hospitalized previously healthy infants with fever in Pusan National University Children's Hospital from January 2010 to December 2016. Clinical features, laboratory findings and antibiotic therapy were analyzed. Respiratory viruses were identified by multiplex reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and were reported after 1-3 days. Enterovirus were identified by real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and were reported in several hours.
RESULTS
The 129 of 366 subjects used empirical antibiotics and 237 patients didn't used empirical antibiotics. Empirical antibiotics were used more frequently when the fever was longer before admission, respiratory symptoms and ill being appearances were present and C-reactive protein was elevated. The rate of readmission was low in the group not used empirical antibiotics. Most of the patients detected by enterovirus PCR in cerebrospinal fluid didn't used empirical antibiotics. The results of respiratory virus multiplex RT-PCR showed no difference in the use of empirical antibiotics.
CONCLUSIONS
In our study, empirical antibiotic prescriptions were affected not respiratory virus multiplex RT-PCR but enterovirus PCR. If multiplex RT-PCR were reported more rapid turn around time, it will affect antibiotic use.

Keyword

Fever; Infant; Anti-bacterial agents

MeSH Terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents*
Busan
C-Reactive Protein
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Enterovirus
Fever
Humans
Infant*
Medical Records
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Prescriptions
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Retrospective Studies
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Anti-Bacterial Agents
C-Reactive Protein

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