If a patient with a bacteremia is receiving antibiotics but not responding to treatment,how does the physician find out if another organism is present in the blood,causing the problem?
A) Redraw the blood cultures.
B) Redraw the blood cultures using an antibiotic removal device (ARD) .
C) Switch the patient to another antibiotic that will resolve the clinical symptoms.
D) Perform hemodialysis to remove the organisms from the patient's blood.
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