• Am J Emerg Med · Mar 2022

    Adequacy of probabilistic prehospital antibiotic therapy for septic shock.

    • Romain Jouffroy, Basile Gilbert, Anna Hassan, Jean-Pierre Tourtier, Emmanuel Bloch-Laine, Patrick Ecollan, Josiane Boularan, Vincent Bounes, Benoit Vivien, and Papa Gueye.
    • Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne Billancourt, France; Intensive Care Unit, Anaesthesiology, SAMU, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, Paris, France; Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations, U1018 INSERM, Université Paris Saclay, France; Institut de Recherche bioMédicale et d'Epidémiologie du Sport - EA7329, INSEP, Université de Paris, France; EA 7525 Université des Antilles, France. Electronic address: romain.jouffroy@aphp.fr.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Mar 1; 53: 80-85.

    BackgroundGuidelines on sepsis management recommend early recognition, diagnosis and treatment, especially early antibiotic therapy (ABT) administration in order to reduce septic shock (SS) mortality. However, the adequacy of probabilistic prehospital ABT remains unknown.MethodsFrom May 2016 to March 2021, all consecutive patients with SS cared for by a prehospital mICU intervention were retrospectively analyzed.ResultsAmong 386 patients retrospectively analyzed, 119 (33%) received probabilistic prehospital ABT, among which 74% received a 3rd generation cephalosporin: 31% cefotaxime and 42% ceftriaxone. No patient had a serious adverse effect related to ABT administration. Overall mortality rate on day-30 was 29%. Among the 119 patients with prehospital ABT, bacteriological identification was obtained for 81 (68%) patients with adequate prehospital ABT for 65 patients (80%) of which 10 (15%) deceased on day-30. Conversely, among the 16 (20%) patients with inadequate prehospital ABT, 9 patients (56%) were deceased on day-30. Prehospital adequate ABT was significantly different between alive and deceased patients on day-30 (p = 4.10-3). After propensity score matching, a significant association between adequate prehospital ABT administration and day-30 mortality was observed (aOR = 0.09 [0.01-0.47]). Inverse probability treatment weighting with multivariable logistic regression reported a day-30 mortality decrease in the adequate prehospital ABT group: aOR = 0.70 [0.53-0.93].ConclusionsAmong SS cared for by a mICU, probabilistic prehospital ABT is adequate most of the time and associated with a day-30 mortality decrease. Further prospective studies are needed to confirm these results and the weight of prehospital ABT in the prehospital bundle of care for SS.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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