Medical history of congestive heart failure

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A 65 year old male patient with past medical history of congestive heart failure was admitted from a nursing home with suspected pneumonia and started empirically on meropenem, levofloxacin, and vancomycin. On day 3, sputum culture results were finalized and showed no growth. The patient had improved significantly after receiving IV furosemide and currently had no signs or symptoms of infection and no infiltrates on chest x-ray. The treating physician decided the patient's symptoms were due to fluid overload. a. Maintain the current antibiotic regimen to complete a 7-day course of therapy b. Discontinue meropenem and vancomycin and continue levofloxacin to complete a 7-day course of therapy c. Maintain the current antibiotic regimen but recollect sputum cultures since the first set of cultures did not grow anything d. Discontinue the current antibiotic regime.

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