A new meta-analysis found evidence that vancomycin may not prevent surgical site infections after spine surgery.

Purpose An original and a revised vancomycin dosing protocol for obese patients were compared with respect to attainment of target serum trough vancomycin concentrations and the occurrence of ...

Purpose. The feasibility of using a limitedsampling algorithm for administration of vancomycin for treatment of vascular-access-related bacteremia in outpatient high flux hemodialysis was ...

A study today in JAMA Internal Medicine indicates that vancomycin can reduce risk of all-cause mortality for patients with severe Clostridium difficile infection. The authors of the study say the ...

Figure 1 Prevalence of vancomycin-resistance among enterococci in nosocomial infections in intensive-care patients in the USA. Data from references 15,16. Figure 2 Yearly injectable and oral ...

Oral vancomycin, through possible immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory mechanisms, has been shown in small-scale studies to be successful in improving liver function tests in patients with ...

ap-hm.fr Background There is no consensus on vancomycin dosing in newborns and young infants. Objective The first objective was to assess the efficiency of a simplified dosing regimen with a cohort ...

Department of Burn, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Objective: To analyze factors influencing the vancomycin trough concentration in burn patients to ...

Editor,—The recommended treatment of endophthalmitis includes intravitreal injection of broad spectrum antibiotics. Vancomycin is the drug of choice for Gram positive bacteria, while Gram negative ...

Optimal therapy remains controversial. We aimed to compare mortality and clinical response outcomes in patients treated with either linezolid or vancomycin. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.

METHODS In consecutive patients with suspected postoperative endophthalmitis a vitreous biopsy for bacterial culture was taken before 0.2 mg vancomycin and 0.05 mg gentamicin were injected ...