Piperacillin-Tazobactam: The Antibiotic You’re Not Administering Correctly
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By Jon-Emile S. Kenny [@heart_lung] “Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where, and we don’t know where ...” -Paul Simon The Case A 42 year old man is admitted with fever, right upper-quadrant pain and jaundice. Over the last few hours he has become progressively confused and hypotensive. He has normal renal function with adequate urine output, but the microbiology department alerts your house officer of multiple blood culture bottles containing non-fermenting gram negative rods. The patient is given 2 litres of lactated ringers and a vasopressin infusion is initiated. The patient is also immediately begun on piperacillin-tazobactam [pip-tazo] 4.5 grams every 6 hours.
Piperacillin-Tazobactam: The Antibiotic You’re Not Administering Correctly
Piperacillin-Tazobactam: The Antibiotic…
Piperacillin-Tazobactam: The Antibiotic You’re Not Administering Correctly
By Jon-Emile S. Kenny [@heart_lung] “Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where, and we don’t know where ...” -Paul Simon The Case A 42 year old man is admitted with fever, right upper-quadrant pain and jaundice. Over the last few hours he has become progressively confused and hypotensive. He has normal renal function with adequate urine output, but the microbiology department alerts your house officer of multiple blood culture bottles containing non-fermenting gram negative rods. The patient is given 2 litres of lactated ringers and a vasopressin infusion is initiated. The patient is also immediately begun on piperacillin-tazobactam [pip-tazo] 4.5 grams every 6 hours.