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7 days of antibiotics effective for preventing recurrent cUTI among hospitalized adults
1 month ago - By Healio
Another study has demonstrated that a shorter course of antibiotics may be better, this time for the treatment of complicated UTIs when antibiotics with comparable IV and oral bioavailability are administered.
“UTIs are one of the most common reasons antibiotics are prescribed. With an increasingly medically complex patient population due to advancements in health care, more and more patients with UTIs qualify as having complicated UTIs as they require indwelling or intermittent catheters, have renal stones, received a renal transplant, or have a multitude of other medical
Read more ...‘No evidence' antibiotics prevent hospital-acquired infections in cirrhosis patients
1 month ago - By Healio
Antibiotic prophylaxis failed to reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infections or overall mortality among patients with decompensated cirrhosis, according to data published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
“We undertook this study as we were struck that clinicians in our large-scale trial Albumin to Prevent Infection in Chronic Liver Failure prescribed antibiotics to more than 50% of patients at hospitalization even though they only thought 27% had an infection,” Alastair O'Brien, MBBS, BSc, FRCP, PhD, professor of experimental hepatology and
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