Prehospital antibiotics reduce complications in children with pleural effusion/empyema
Prehospital antibiotic therapy (PH-ABT) leads to a marked decrease in the overall rate of bacterial pathogen detection by culture, but not by polymerase chain reaction, in children with parapneumonic pleural effusion (PPE) and pleural empyema (PE), a study has found. PH-ABT also results in a reduced rate of infectious complications but does not have an impact on the overall disease duration.
