For patients with MSSA bacteremia and planned oxacillin at home via OPAT due to start the day after discharge, would you consider discharging after one time dose of ceftriaxone or daptomycin?
Answer from: at Community Practice
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...
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