Sodium thiosulfate has been considered as an empirical treatment for cyanide poisoning, along with hydroxocobalamin.
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It has been proposed as the first-line drug of choice for empirical treatment of acute cystitis.
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The Infectious Disease Society of America however recommends against empirical treatment and considers antibiotics only appropriate following positive testing.
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The Infectious Disease Society of America recommends against empirical treatment and considers antibiotics only appropriate when given after a positive test.
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For instance, in the United Kingdom empirical treatment consists of a third-generation cefalosporin such as cefotaxime or ceftriaxone.
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It should not be used as empirical treatment for hospital-acquired infections because of its lack of activity against " Pseudomonas aeruginosa ".
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This first treatment, based on statistical information about former patients, and aimed at a large group of potentially involved microbes, is called empirical treatment.
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Such information may be useful to the clinician, who can change the empirical treatment, to a more custom-tailored treatment that is directed only at the causative bacterium.
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Chloramphenicol has been used in the U . S . in the initial empirical treatment of children with fever and a petechial rash, when the differential diagnosis includes both " Neisseria meningitidis " septicaemia and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pending the results of diagnostic investigations.
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Now that we have anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, anti-shyness drugs, and anti-hyperactivity drugs common as candy, and now that any attempt at discovering a cause of unhappiness is secondary to an empirical treatment of the mood itself, I'm not sure that " soma " hasn't also proven scientifically true as well.