Vancomycin

foreign objects present in the wound is also essential.14 Surgery should be avoided except in cases of chronic/ stage 4 osteomyelitis as surgery can further introduce pathogens to the bones and worsen the infection.12 It is very important to start treatment for osteomyelitis as early and as effective as possible in order to avoid complications such as bone necrosis, weakened bone, systemic infections, and sepsis as a result.12 Further infection of the bone may also occur in untreated…

Argument To initiate an argument that stands up for Staphylococcus aureus in being a helpful or good bacterium is something I just cannot do. I can argue that the bacteria S. aureus is a terrible and very communicable bacterium, that I can do! I, myself fought S. aureus in one of the worst places possible, my buttock! I know exactly how I caught it as well, I work in the medical field. Though not in a hospital where S. aureus is mostly contracted from hospital to patients, a clinic works…

widely used, though it is not FDA approved to treat C. difficile infection. Taken multiple times a day by mouth metronidazole is effective in the treatment of a mild infection. For more severe infections vancomycin is used as treatment, vancomycin can be given by mouth or intravenously. Vancomycin is sometimes given in conjunction with metronidazole on an outpatient bases…

A 59-year old white female presented to the Emergency Room department complaining of severe back pain that began two days prior. The patient was tender to the touch along the middle of the thoracic spine with no warmth or redness. The patient’s spine did reveal mild scoliosis but no gross deformities. There was no significant radiating pain to the surrounding spinal musculature. Although the patient was ambulatory, any movement such as walking, twisting side to side, bending over, or…

Recommended Testing Lactate Level Blood Cultures X 2 (Different Sites) - Prior to initiating antibiotics Culture Surgical Site and Gram Stain Complete Blood Count with Differential (CBC) Complete Metabolic Profile (CMP) Blood Glucose Monitoring Prothrombin Time (PT) and International Nectrotizing Ratio (INR) Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) Urinalysis (UA) and Culture CT Abdomen/Pelvis Radiograph of Right Lower Extremity The given scenario leads this writer to pursue aggressive…

cases where the patient is allergic or intolerant to metronidazole or in severe infections, that does not respond well to the antibiotic after five to seven days would have to take vancomycin. The dosage of vancomycin usually is about 125 mg four times a day for ten days also. In double special cases the dosage of vancomycin could be delivered via the enema. Although, there still are other patients that have more complicated C. diff infections typically they would have one of the following,…

on hospital grounds because it can contaminate any devices doctors use on their patients. Staphylococcus epidermidis doesn’t usually respond well to antibiotics; so in order to treat it, Vancomycin is prescribed because it is the drug of choice for infections caused by methicillin resistant organisms. Vancomycin usually targets enzymes that facilitate cell wall formation; and the greatest disadvantages of it is that it is hard to administer and can cause anaphylactic reactions or flushing of…

Antibiotic Resistance Don’t take any antibiotic medicine if you haven’t read this essay. When taking antibiotics, compliance and consistency are two important words to keep in mind. What problems occur if the doctor’s prescription isn’t fulfilled? Taking antibiotics in a flawed manner could lead to antibiotic resistance . It occurs when bacterias adapt ways: or change, in order to survive from an antibiotic drug (Antibiotic Resistance 2014). An example of this situation is how a strain of…

BIOLITICS: FMT Research Summary Fecal Matter Transplantation aka “Bacteriotherapy” Fecal transplantation (or bacteriotherapy) is basically the transfer of stool from a healthy donor into the gastrointestinal tract for the purpose of treating recurrent C. difficile colitis. Fecal Microbial Transplantation Is for What Exactly..?? When antibiotics kill off too many "good" bacteria in the digestive tract, fecal transplants can help replenish bacterial balance. Why It’s Performed Fecal…

Equipment (Safe Work, 2015). So as an Infection Control Representative or as member of the Nursing staff assessing a new patient you would look at Elimination first. For example a patient that has been admitted to the ward and has tested positive for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE). As VRE cannot be eliminated we then move down the scale to Substitution. Substitution is looking at a risk and trying to substitute the…