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Topics in Antibiotic 14
Principles of antimicrobial use
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Prophylactic, empirical or directed antimicrobial therapy
- Route of administration
- Home-based intravenous antimicrobial therapy
- Adverse effects of antimicrobials
- Antimicrobial drug interactions
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Patient education
Getting to know your drugs
- Antibacterial drugs
- Antifungal drugs
- Antiviral drugs
- Antiprotozoal drugs
- Anthelmintic drugs
Antimicrobial hypersensitivity (allergy)
- Types of hypersensitivity
- Diagnosis of antimicrobial hypersensitivity
- Cross-reactivity between beta lactams
- Management of patients reporting penicillin hypersensitivity
Bone and joint infections
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteomyelitis involving bone and joint prostheses
- Septic arthritis
- Septic bursitis
- Viral arthritis
- Compound (open) fractures
Cardiovascular system infections
- Endocarditis
- Infected aneurysms and intravascular prostheses
Central nervous system infections
- Meningitis
- Brain abscess or subdural empyema
- Epidural abscess
- Neurocysticercosis
- Herpes simplex encephalitis
- Toxoplasma encephalitis
Eye infections
- Blepharitis
- Cellulitis
- Dacryocystitis
- Epiphora
- Meibomian abscess (internal hordeolum) and chalazions
- Stye (external hordeolum)
- Conjunctivitis
- Chlamydia trachomatis conjunctivitis or trachoma
- Gonococcal conjunctivitis
- Gonococcal ophthalmia in neonates
- Corneal abrasion
- Keratitis
- Herpetic retinitis (including cytomegalovirus retinitis)
- Ophthalmic herpes zoster
- Endophthalmitis and penetrating eye injuries
Genital and sexually transmitted infections
- Balanitis
- Epididymo-orchitis
- Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
- Donovanosis (granuloma inguinale) (Klebsiella granulomatis)
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Proctitis
- Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia trachomatis L1-L3 serovars)
- Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
- Urethritis and cervicitis
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Group B streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae) in pregnant women
- Trichomoniasis (Trichomonas vaginalis)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Indications for antiretroviral therapy
- Before starting antiretroviral therapy
- Antiretroviral drugs
- HIV infection in pregnancy
- Monitoring antiretroviral therapy
- Changing antiretroviral therapy
- Antiretroviral interactions
- Opportunistic infections
Intra-abdominal infections
- Acute cholecystitis
- Ascending cholangitis
- Acute peritonitis
- Peritonitis due to perforated viscus
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)
- Peritonitis complicating continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Pyogenic liver abscess
Malaria
- Treatment
- Prophylaxis
- Stand-by emergency treatment
Mycobacterial infections
- Tuberculosis
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
Prophylaxis: medical
- Prevention of recurrent rheumatic fever
- Prevention of endocarditis
- Prevention of infection in joint prostheses
- Chemoprophylaxis for meningitis
- Prophylaxis for splenectomy and hyposplenic patients
- Prophylaxis for cirrhotic patients with gastrointestinal bleeding
- Prevention of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Post-sexual assault prophylaxis
- Occupational postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) against blood-borne viruses
Prophylaxis: surgical
- General principles
- Abdominal surgery
- Burns, extensive skin loss
- Cardiac surgery
- Head, neck and thoracic surgery
- Lower limb amputation
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetric and gynaecological surgery
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Urological surgery
- Vascular surgery
Respiratory tract infections: pneumonia
- Community-acquired pneumonia in adults
- Patient assessment
- Empirical treatment
- Community-acquired pneumonia in children
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Lung abscess
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia
- Low risk of multidrug-resistant organisms
- High risk of multidrug-resistant organisms
- Directed antibiotic therapy for specific pneumonias in adults and children
- Pneumococcal pneumonia
- Staphylococcal pneumonia
- Legionella pneumonia
- Pneumonia due to other pathogens
- Pneumonia in the immunocompromised patient
- Pneumocystis jiroveci (carinii) pneumonia
- Bacterial pneumonia in HIV infection
- Fungal pneumonia
Respiratory tract infections: other
- Influenza
- Pharyngitis and/or tonsillitis
- Acute epiglottitis (supraglottitis)
- Otitis externa
- Otitis media
- Pertussis
Severe sepsis (sepsis syndrome)
- Initial management
- Empirical antimicrobial therapy (no obvious source of infection)
- Empirical antimicrobial therapy (source of infection apparent)
- Directed antimicrobial therapy
Skin and soft tissue infections
- Bites and clenched fist injuries
- Cellulitis and erysipelas
- Cervical lymphadenitis
- Diabetic foot infections
- Mastitis
- Necrotising skin and soft tissue infections
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Venous (varicose) ulcers
- Water-related infections
- Wound infections
- Herpes zoster (shingles)
Systemic infections
- Australian spotted fevers and scrub typhus
- Brucellosis
- Cat-scratch disease and other Bartonella infections
- Hydatid disease
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme disease
- Melioidosis
- Q fever
- Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis)
- Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers (enteric fevers)
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections
- Neonatal herpes infection
- Varicella (chicken pox)
Urinary tract infections
- Adults
- Children
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Catheter-associated bacteriuria and urinary tract infections
- Candiduria
- Prostatitis
Biological warfare agents
Desensitisation protocols
- Penicillin protocol
- Sulfonamide protocol
Monitoring antimicrobial blood concentrations and aminoglycoside and vancomycin dosing
- Aminoglycosides
- Beta lactams
- Flucytosine
- Triazole antifungals
- Teicoplanin
- Vancomycin
Pneumonia severity scoring systems for community-acquired pneumonia in adults
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Renal impairment and antimicrobial dosing Publication dates for Antibiotic guidelines
First published 1978
Second edition 1979
Reprinted 1980
Third edition 1982
Reprinted 1983, 1984
Fourth edition 1984
Fifth edition 1987
Reprinted 1988
Sixth edition 1990
Reprinted 1991
Seventh edition 1992
Reprinted 1993
Eight edition 1994
Reprinted 1995
Ninth edition 1996
Tenth edition 1998
Version 11 2000
Version 12 2003
Reprinted 2005
Version 13 2006
Reprinted 2008
Version 14 2010 Suggested citation
Antibiotic Expert Group. Therapeutic guidelines: antibiotic. Version 14.
Melbourne: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited; 2010.
ISBN
9780980476477
Electronic version
Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic is available in electronic format as part of eTG complete for desktop computers and miniTG for handheld devices.
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