cefotaxime

Examples

• All

• Penicillin-resistant meningococcus is rare in the UK, but an alternative is cefotaxime 80 mg/kg IV or IM, which covers other bacterial diagnoses.

  Academic text (2014)

• Postoperatively, the patient was administered IV clindamycin at 150 mg every 6 hours and IV cefotaxime at 500 mg every 8 hours.

  Academic text (2003)

• In known penicillin anaphylaxis, use cefotaxime or chloramphenicol.

  Academic text (2014)

• Ceftriaxone is more effective than both cefotaxime and cefuroxime in treating meningitis.

  Academic text (2006)

• Empirical intravenous ampicillin and cefotaxime at meningitic doses were started.

  Academic text (2015)

• The boy was admitted to a community hospital and started on intravenous cefotaxime at 500 mg every 8 hours, but he remained febrile and irritable.

  Academic text (2003)

• The use of an appropriate antimicrobial drug regimen was noted if a patient had been administered ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, or ciprofloxacin alone or in combination with doxycycline.

  Academic text (2015)

• This is in accordance with reports on higher concentrations of cefotaxime with intra-arterial compared with intravenous infusion in exudates of ischemic ulcers.

  Academic text (2000)

• The following antimicrobial drugs were tested: penicillin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, levofloxacin, and vancomycin.

  Academic text (2012)

• The doctor prescribed cefotaxime to treat the severe infection in her lungs.

Synonyms

C

Claforan

vscefotaxime

• Specialized

8.2

A medicine that fights serious infections caused by bacteria, for example in the lungs or urinary tract

is the generic chemical name used in medical writing

Surface Forms

Etymology