Giving antibiotics before the infection occurred in patients for intensive care unit that can create opportunities for a greater life.
Findings are reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that giving antibiotics immediately, even before an infection developed, the more important to save the life of someone.
"We have been using antibiotics to reduce the risk of death in patients treated intensively. And this information needs to be notified to the community," said Anne Marie de Smet, one of the researchers who came from the University Medical Center Utrecht.
Anti-bacterial drugs is a problem in the segregated hospital in the world. This is marked by the increase in bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, or MRSA. Infection has been as much to kill 19,000 people a year in the United States, while for one year more than 4,000 people infected in the UK.
As Science Daily reported, De Smet and colleagues have been examining as many as 6,000 men and women who lived in the intensive care units in 13 hospitals in the Netherlands to compare the effects of different antibiotic treatment.
The result is, antibiotics can save someone who is exposed to infection. This discovery became important, because in some hospitals in poor countries, there are some difficulties to get the anti-bacterial drugs.
"With the delivery of antibiotics at first. At least the hospital can help those who need drugs in treating patients who are infected," said De Smeet.
Findings are reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that giving antibiotics immediately, even before an infection developed, the more important to save the life of someone.
"We have been using antibiotics to reduce the risk of death in patients treated intensively. And this information needs to be notified to the community," said Anne Marie de Smet, one of the researchers who came from the University Medical Center Utrecht.
Anti-bacterial drugs is a problem in the segregated hospital in the world. This is marked by the increase in bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, or MRSA. Infection has been as much to kill 19,000 people a year in the United States, while for one year more than 4,000 people infected in the UK.
As Science Daily reported, De Smet and colleagues have been examining as many as 6,000 men and women who lived in the intensive care units in 13 hospitals in the Netherlands to compare the effects of different antibiotic treatment.
The result is, antibiotics can save someone who is exposed to infection. This discovery became important, because in some hospitals in poor countries, there are some difficulties to get the anti-bacterial drugs.
"With the delivery of antibiotics at first. At least the hospital can help those who need drugs in treating patients who are infected," said De Smeet.
