SLIDE 17 Case 5: Vancomycin Treatment Failure
– Afebrile – Slowly declining WBC, – Serum creatinine 1.53, GFR ~38 ml/min
– Vancomycin discontinued – Daptomycin 500 mg (10 mg/kg) q24 hours started
– Fever spike to 39C – 2 blood cultures drawn, eventually grow MRSA (vancomycin MIC=1, dapto MIC = 1)
Persistent S. aureus Bacteremia/Treatment Failure Risk Factors
- Definitions vary: >3d or >5d or >7d
- What factors are consistently identified as being
correlated?
– Endocarditis, endovascular source – Metastatic infection – Retained catheter or foreign body – Use of vancomycin instead of β-lactam for MSSA
- Controversy over vancomycin MIC > 1 µg/ml (E-test)
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