Antibiotics and Pseudomonasis

If there's no organism detected, i think you really want to think twice about whether or not the patient truly has ventilator sated monia. If antibotics are started before you got your cultures, then the cultures could be falsely negative. Mar sa, pneumonia typically produces a lot of sputum. It's typically relatively easy to culture. Oftentimes we can get positive p car signals on these patients and it doesn't sterilize easily. One last thing is mrsa covered. So i quickly went over it. I said, merse, if it's negative, should i discontinue it? And i really think that unless there's some evidence documented somewhere, that