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Encyclopedia: Pneumonia |
 | | Empiric treatment is usually started well before laboratory reports are available because such treatment generally cannot be delayed in any patient with a serious pneumonia. |
| | Antibiotics used for hospital-acquired pneumonia include vancomycin, third and fourth generation cephalosporins, carbapenems, fluoroquinolones, and aminoglycosides. |
| | Multiple antibiotics are usually administered in combination to cover all the possible causative organisms. |
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