In the absence of a known organism, antibiotics must be used which will cover the most common causes of sinusitis, and if patients are not responsive to first line antibiotics, resistant organisms ...
Since cultures are difficult to obtain and are unreliable without sinus puncture, antibiotics must be selected based upon up-to-date regional knowledge of likely pathogens. Studies have ...
Antibiotics were once considered a first-line treatment for sinusitis. In fact, a 2001 report in the journal American Family Physician estimated that antibiotics were prescribed for up to 98 ...