Antibiotic

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Thomas Oetting, MS, MD, reviews how the staff at the Iowa City VA Hospital has been able to keep cataract surgery costs down. This includes using RNs rather than CRNAs, as well as oral sedation, intracameral antibiotics and intracameral mydriasis.

Oral fluoroquinolones were prescribed appropriately only 15% of the time in long-term care facilities, according to results of a retrospective chart review published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Prenatal exposure to antibiotics is associated with an increased risk for childhood asthma, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

When compared with placebo or no intervention, antibiotics and systemic corticosteroids were associated with less treatment failure in adults with COPD exacerbations, according to a meta-analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Women who received metronidazole with the CDC-recommended antibiotic regimen of ceftriaxone and doxycycline for pelvic inflammatory disease, or PID, experienced better clinical and microbiologic outcomes than women who received only ceftriaxone and doxycycline, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Antimicrobial stewardship improves patient outcomes, protects public health and elevates the field of infectious diseases. Despite its significant benefits, there are important opportunities for improvement and the Infectious Diseases Society of America is committed to strengthening stewardship implementation through collaborative, evidence-based approaches.

Empirical anti-MRSA therapy was not associated with reduced mortality for any group of patients hospitalized for pneumonia, even those at high risk for MRSA, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Fecal microbiota transplantation appears to be a cost-effective treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, or CDI, but not for the initial incidence of CDI, according to findings from a systematic review published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

More than one-quarter of hospitalized children receiving antibiotics receive a suboptimal prescription, and almost half of suboptimal orders are not reviewed by an antimicrobial stewardship program, or ASP, according to data from 32 U.S. children’s hospitals.

Patients prescribed antivirals and antibiotics during treatment for influenza have a lower risk for 30-day hospitalization compared with patients given antivirals alone, according to findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.