New Guideline Advises Against Routine CT for Pediatric Empyema

New evidence-based guideline for pediatric empyema: routine CT not recommended over ultrasound (conditional recommendation, very low certainty). No clinical, radiological, or laboratory predictors of medical management failure identified.

• Routine CT is not suggested over ultrasound for managing pediatric empyema (conditional, very low certainty).
• No clinical, radiological, microbiological, biomarker, or pleural fluid characteristics were identified as predictors of failure of medical management (conditional, very low certainty).

Evidence grade: conditional recommendation, very low certainty

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