Do you recommend treating Candida albicans on urine culture from an indwelling catheter in a patient with septic shock?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
In a patient with septic shock, one is typically obligated to treat all things until further culture data is back, etc. If there are other clear causes of shock, I would not treat the candida (though I would try to change the catheter ASAP). If the patient is extremely ill and no other sources of in...
C albicans is a common, generally asymptomatic, fungus in individuals with a chronic indwelling Foley. A rare cause of septic shock. Yet “common” and “rare” are statistical probabilities, not certainties. In individuals with potentially high morbidity and mortality septic sho...
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at University of California Davis Health Are you concerned that azoles may not cover all st...
at Saint Francis Hospital Agree. Not all Candida are covered by azoles, and&...