Antibiotic overuse in the United States has been notable, with prescribing rates far exceeding other developed nations. Prescribing of unnecessary or inappropriate antibiotics in the ICU is estimated ...
Vol. 7, Supplement 4. Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacterial Infections: A Focus on Directed Therapy, with Special Reference to Aztreonam (Nov. - Dec., 1985), pp. S741-S746 (6 pages) Aztreonam plus ...
Recent study findings suggest that using nasal surveillance swabs to test patients for MRSA could reduce unnecessary vancomycin therapy in the ICU, improving antibiotic stewardship. According to ...
Purpose An original and a revised vancomycin dosing protocol for obese patients were compared with respect to attainment of target serum trough vancomycin concentrations and the occurrence of ...
Beta-lactams are superior to vancomycin for definitive therapy, but not empiric treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bloodstream infection, according to a large ...
Researchers assessed the effects of different empiric antibiotic regimens on the risk for acute kidney injury among patients admitted to the intensive care unit. The risk for acute kidney injury was ...