Question

A 55-year-old Aboriginal man living in a remote community presents late at night to a nurse-led clinic with fever, tachycardia and hypotension. Retrieval will not be available for several hours. According to the CARPA Standard Treatment Manual and sepsis standards, which statement best reflects the approach to antibiotic access in such remote settings?

Accepted Answer

Broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics should be available on imprest so that sepsis treatment can begin on site within 60 minutes of recognition

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Antibiotics should be stored only at the retrieval base to avoid misuse in remote clinics

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Remote clinics should wait for a medical officer to arrive in person before administering any antibiotics for sepsis

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Oral antibiotics are sufficient initial therapy for septic shock in remote settings

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Antibiotics should not be given until blood cultures can be processed at a tertiary laboratory

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