Empiric antibiotics

Your patient in the ICU whom you started empiric antibiotics on today due to a rising white blood cell count and the patient being febrile. This afternoon micro lab calls to inform you the patient has positive blood cultures with unknown speciation. Upon chart review, you notice her HD catheter is 6 weeks old. What is the most important plan of action?

 

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