Antibiotic Guidelines features the most recent CDC antibiotic recommendations for infectious diseases, including the most recent infectious disease updates from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC Antibiotic Guidelines includes built-in calculators for calculating creatinine clearance and adjusting renally excreted antibiotics.

CDC Antibiotic Guidelines includes antibiotic guidelines organized by organ and disease and antibiograms for bacteria, fungi, tuberculosis, and mycobacteria.

Antibiotic recommendations are included for inpatients, outpatients, ICU patients, critically ill patients, immunosuppressed patients, penicillin-allergic patients, adults and children. Approved empiric and specific antimicrobial therapy is included.

Recommendations include methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, macrolide resistant-streptococcus, drug-resistant Strep pneumoniae, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase positive bacteria, and HACEK group bacteria. Includes acute HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy, post-exposure prophylaxis, and neutropenic fever. CDC antibiotics includes ceftaroline, linezolid, teicoplanin, tigecycline, and peramivir. New guidelines for antibiotic surgical prophylaxis.

Contents:

Bone and Joint Infections
Septic Bursitis - Olecranon bursitis and Prepatellar Bursitis
Open Fractures
Osteomyelitis
Newborn Hematogenous Osteomyelitis
Children Hematogenous Osteomyelitis
Adult Hematogenous Osteomyelitis
Methicillin-sensitive Staph Aureus Osteomyelitis
Methicillin-resistant Staph Aureus Osteomyelitis
Hemoglobinopathy with Osteomyelitis
Adult, Contiguous Osteomyelitis with Diabetes, Vascular Insufficiency
Long Bone Osteomyelitis after Internal Fixation of Fracture
Osteonecrosis of Jaw
Spinal Implant Osteomyelitis
Sternal Osteomyelitis, After Surgery
Chronic Osteomyelitis
Foot Osteomyelitis from Puncture Wound without Vascular Insufficiency
Osteomyelitis in Child with Sickle Cell Disease
Osteomyelitis in Child with Puncture Wound of Foot
Septic Arthritis
Septic Arthritis in Adult: not at Risk for STD: Non-gonococcal
Septic Arthritis in Adult at Risk for STD: Gonococcal
Chronic Monoarticular Septic Arthritis
Polyarticular, Acute Septic Arthritis
Septic Arthritis After Intra-articular Injection
Infected prosthetic joint with S pyogenes
Infected Prosthetic Joint with Gram-negative bacilli
Infected Prosthetic Joint with MSSE or MSSA
Infected prosthetic Joint with MRSE or MRSA
Propionibacterium Acnes Prosthetic Joint Infection
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Prosthetic Joint Infection
Septic Arthritis
Infection of Orthopedic Prosthetic Implant

And Much More