Table 4.
Timing of antibiotic treatment by disease severity.
| Antibiotics | All NEC N = 25 |
Medical n = 16 |
Surgical n = 9 |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to any antibiotic 1 (min) | 151 ± 96 | 122 ± 58 | 204 ± 129 | 0.049 |
| Time to vancomycin (min) | 160 ± 93 | 131 ± 67 | 210 ± 115 | 0.032 |
| Time to piperacillin-tazobactam (min) | 143 ± 93 | 112 ± 56 | 198 ± 176 | 0.15 |
1 All infants received both vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam (pip/taz) in this study. Adjusted for BW and age in binary linear regression model. Continuous variables are given as means ± SD. Radiographic findings were also compared.