Gram Stain Can Be Used to Safely Discontinue Vancomycin Therapy for Early Pneumonia in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit.The article discusses a study which hypothesized that the Gram stain from an obtained pulmonary culture could detect the presence of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA...
Vancomycinincreasingly is required to treat serious staph infections because so many strains of staph bacteria have become resistant to other traditional medicines. But vancomycin and some other antibiotics have to be given intravenously. Is staph aureus a contaminant in urine? Staphylococcus aureus (SA)...
Pneumonia was the next most significant complication to add to the length ASIA MEETING 1 98 7 1 09 of stay. Surgery as a means of management did not improve the length of stay in those patients managed by the center physicians . Even when non-operative management was selected, the patient...
vancomycin), providers may consider therapeutic substitution to reduce the burden of outpatient lab coordination and risk of ADE.19Certain antimicrobial-associated ADEs may occur more commonly with prolonged antimicrobials
Use of vancomycin-containing lock or flush solutions for prevention of bloodstream infection associated with central venous access devices: a meta-analysis of prospective, randomized trials. Clin. Infect. Dis. 43, 474–484 (2006). Article PubMed Google Scholar Bjarnsholt, T., Tolker-Nielsen,...
(especially in infancy and related to glomerular filtration rate, such as with vancomycin), (3) obesity (especially with sedation and volume of distribution, and ventilator management and ideal body weight), (4) failure to thrive (as is common in pediatric chronic critical illness [PCCI]), (...
Already, several common bacteria have been identified that are resistant to every antibiotic but one–vancomycin. As this article was being prepared, the New England Journal of Medicine published the most recent incidence of this frightening trend, an outbreak of multidrug-resistant pneumococcal ...
Specifically, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) behaves like vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA) upon exposure to colistin, which is currently usedagainst infectionsby Gram-negative bacteria. Is amikacin single use? Use: Amikacin injection isused to treat susceptible gram-negative ba...
Carmen J, Roeder B, Nelson J, et al. Ultrasonically enhanced vancomycin activity againstStaphylococcus epidermidisbiofilms in vivo. J Biomater Appl. 2004;18(4):237–45. ArticleCASPubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar Pitt WG, Ross SA. Ultrasound increases the rate of bacterial cell growth. Biotechnol...
[26]. While bacterial CF lung communities are often polymicrobial,P. aeruginosais the main pathogen responsible for bacterial-associated pneumonia [27,28], chronically infecting up to 80% of CF patients [29,30,31,32]. Other common CF-associated bacterial species includeS. aureus,Burkholderia ...