For patients with MSSA bacteremia and planned oxacillin at home via OPAT due to start the day after discharge, would you consider discharging after a one-time dose of ceftriaxone or daptomycin?
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Infectious Disease · Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell
In a patient with MSSA bacteremia, I would not be comfortable sending a patient home after one dose of ceftriaxone or daptomycin to continue outpatient anti-staph IV antibiotics. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia causes distant seeding in more than 1/3 of cases and has a mortality rate ranging betwee...