[Empirical treatment of urinary infections in urologic surgery]

Abstract

Emergency prescription of empirical antibiotic therapy is justified in a context of febrile urinary tract infection, or to shorten the preoperative period in a hospitalised infected patient. The severity of the infection, its origin (community or nosocomial), morphological characteristics of the bacteria on direct examination, and urinary dip-stick data must be taken into account to select the most appropriate antibiotic while waiting for the antibiotic susceptibility test results.