ORAL antibiotics will be used more for bone or joint infections

August 2014

ORAL antibiotics will be used more for bone or joint infections.

Treating these infections used to mean weeks of IV antibiotics.

But switching to oral meds after just 1 to 4 weeks often works as well, is more convenient, and costs less.

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Table of Contents

Dosage Forms which tablets, capsules, and patches can be cut or opened
Medication Errors Mixing up letters and numbers can be a big source of med errors
Practice We're seeing reports of meds and other products catching fire
Diuretics a new blood pressure med, Inspra (IN-sprah, eplerenone)
Benzodiazepines new efforts to wean patients off benzodiazepines (lorazepam, etc)
STIs Veregen (VER-ah-jen, sinecatechins) ointment as a new therapy for genital warts
Measles push for measles vaccination due to recent outbreaks
Antifungals Jublia (JOO-blee-uh, efinaconazole), a new Rx topical "onychomycosis" treatment for fungal toenail infections
Pediatrics see more Rxs for quinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, etc) in KIDS
Infections ORAL antibiotics will be used more for bone or joint infections
Practice Pharmacy technicians will help "make or break" pharmacists' new emphasis on providing medication reviews