Is gentamicin prescribed as per trust guidelines in patients being treated for intra-abdominal sepsis?

• In: Posters: Hospital Pharmacy Section
• At: Bangkok (Thailand) (2014)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS053
• By: MURRAY, Brendan (Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Pharmacy, Chichester, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Munns, Joanne (Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chichester, United Kingdom)
  
• Abstract:

  I Background: The trust guidelines at WSHT have changed recently due to the need to reduce the use of broad spectrum antibiotics e.g. co-amoxiclav which has been implicated in patients developing C. difficile infections.
  Under the new guidelines gentamicin is included as part of a set of three antibiotics. This ensures that the fully spectrum of..

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