From: Treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections in the era of multi-drug resistant bacteria
Tarragona strategy | |
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Look at your patient | The choice for a certain antibiotic treatment should be based on individual patients' risk factors |
Listen to your hospital | Knowledge of the actual hospital specific surveillance data is essential for the antibiotic choice |
Hit hard and fast | The therapy should be initiated immediately and be broad enough to reach the vast majority of likely pathogens |
Get to the point | Select antibiotics with pharmacokinetic and -dynamic properties to reach effective concentration at the side of infection |
Focus, focus, focus | Re-evaluation of the initial therapy after 3 days, depending on the results from the microbiology, providing the option of de-escalation to reduce selection pressure and costs |