Successful Migration to a Vancomycin AUC-dosing Protocol: Evaluation, Implementation and Outcomes in an Acute Care Hospital Setting Vancomycin, an antibiotic medication used to treat serious bacterial ...

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SAN FRANCISCO—Vancomycin efficacy and its clinical outcomes in hemodialysis (HD) patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia may not be solely based on dose, treatment ...

Timing of troughs Troughs should be obtained at steady state: approximately prior to the fifth dose IIB Optimal trough concentrations Should be >10 mg/l at a minimum to avoid development of ...

Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of defense with the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin rather than other ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2007;41(2):235-244. Two prospective studies and 2 post hoc analyses have evaluated linezolid for treatment of nosocomial pneumonia. A multinational trial compared ...

The patient was a 35-year-old man from São Paulo with mycosis fungoides, cocaine addiction, and diabetes mellitus. He was initially admitted to a psychiatric hospital in November 2011 for depression ...

Two regimens for infusing vancomycin over 1 h (500 mg every 6 h for five doses or 1000 mg every 12 h for three doses) were used in 11 volunteers. Subjects received both regimens one week apart; the ...

The addition of vancomycin to beta-lactam prophylaxis in arthroplasty may reduce surgical-site infections; however, the efficacy and safety are unclear. A total of 4239 patients underwent ...

HealthDay News — The target trough concentration of vancomycin seems to be lower for adolescents than for adults, according to a study published online June 13 in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.