GENTAMICIN

I work at a hospital. First time it was close to midnight, I ordered a vanc to start the next morning. I chose for the regime to "start tomorrow", then verified it after midnight so that it started the following day. The person went over 24 hours without vanc. Yesterday, the same thing happened wit

Pharmacists, technicians, and all you other people suffering with us - where do you turn to when you receive an off-the-wall drug request or question? And, if you work in hospital or some other location where you deal with bladder irrigations, how do you compound yours? Do you use bottles of NS? Do

Hey guys, I’m servicing a new hospital that serves pediatric patients and newborns. I see a lot of amp/gent for newborns with suspected EOS, critical drips on pediatric patients, vancomycin, opioids, even epidurals. I’m all so new to this patient population and I’ve been trying so hard to look up

What's everyone doing at their hospital with regards to antibiotic lock therapy (ALT)? I currently work at a medium sized community teaching hospital without much in the way of policies. Our line infections are getting out of hand, especially in regards to our IHD population using tunneled catheters

I'm trying to find more information about extended interval aminoglycoside dosing, specifically gentamicin at 5 mg/kg. There doesn't seem to be much data out there, but there are a few different nomograms available including Urban and Craig, Ritchie, etc. Is there any nomogram that is specifically

Feel free to delete if this isn’t allowed, but I could use some insight on how to approach this problem. \*\*Edited for clarity and fixing mistakes I realize now that I mistakingly put vancomycin instead of phenytoin in this title of this—so for that I apologize because it changes everything about h