Empiric therapy

Correct.

So, you know, empiric treatment has a role in FUO, and it's reserved for hemodynamically unstable patients.

So you can start treatment, you know, in patients like... antibiotics in neutropenic patients, or if you have a high suspicion for temporal arthritis, you can start high-dose steroids, and that's to prevent blindness.

So in those cases, specifically, you are allowed to use empiric treatment.

Otherwise, you have to hold your horses, like you said, and don't start antibiotics and steroids right away.

Right, right, yeah.

And you definitely have to be a Always, always keep your focus on the patient.

You know, if they're not stable, that's okay to start empiric treatment.