This document summarizes information about the drug cefuroxime, including its classification as a second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections. It lists the drug's indications, contraindications, mechanisms of action, potential adverse reactions and side effects, dosage and administration routes, and important nursing considerations when using this drug.
This document summarizes information about the drug cefuroxime, including its classification as a second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections. It lists the drug's indications, contraindications, mechanisms of action, potential adverse reactions and side effects, dosage and administration routes, and important nursing considerations when using this drug.
This document summarizes information about the drug cefuroxime, including its classification as a second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections. It lists the drug's indications, contraindications, mechanisms of action, potential adverse reactions and side effects, dosage and administration routes, and important nursing considerations when using this drug.
This document summarizes information about the drug cefuroxime, including its classification as a second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections. It lists the drug's indications, contraindications, mechanisms of action, potential adverse reactions and side effects, dosage and administration routes, and important nursing considerations when using this drug.
CLASSIFICATION INDICATION CONTRAINDICATION MECHANISM OF ADVERSE REACTION ROUTE/DOSAGE NURSING
ACTION & SIDE EFFECT INTERVENTION Therapeutic: ➢ Serious lower ➢ Contraindicated in patients ➢ Inhibits cell-wall CV: phlebitis, ➢ Infusion: 750-mg, ➢ Tell patient to take Antibiotics respiratory tract hypersensitive to drug or other synthesis, thrombophlebitis. GI: 1.5-g vials, infusion drug as prescribed, infection, UTI, skin or cephalosporins. even if feeling better. skin-structure ➢ Use cautiously in patients promoting osmotic diarrhea, pseudomembranous packs, and ADD- ➢ Advise patient who Pharmacologic: infections, bone or joint hypersensitive to penicillin instability; usually colitis, nausea, anorexia, Vantage vials has difficulty Second-generation infection, septicemia, because of possibility of cross- bactericidal. vomiting. Hematologic: ➢ Injection: 750 mg, swallowing tablets to cephalosporins meningitis, and sensitivity with other beta-lactam hemolytic anemia, 1.5 g ask prescriber for the gonorrhea antibiotics. suspension. ➢ Perioperative ➢ According to the CDC, oral thrombocytopenia, transient ➢ PO: 125 mg, 250 ➢ Tell parent to shake Brand name: prophylaxis cephalosporins aren't neutropenia, eosinophilia. mg,u 500 mg suspension well Zinacef ➢ Mild to moderate acute recommended to treat gonococcal Skin: maculopapular and before measuring bacterial exacerbations infections. erythematous rashes, dose. Suspension References: of chronic bronchitis ➢ According to clinical practice urticaria, pain, induration, may be stored at ➢ Acute bacterial guidelines, cefotaxime or room temperature or maxillary sinusitis ceftriaxone should be used to treat sterile abscesses, temperature refrigerated, but must ➢ Pharyngitis and childhood bacterial meningitis elevation, tissue sloughing at be discarded after 10 tonsillitis and pneumococcal and IM injection site. Other: days. ➢ Otitis media meningococcal meningitis caused anaphylaxis, hypersensitivity ➢ Instruct caregiver to ➢ Uncomplicated skin and by penicillin-resistant strains and give oral suspension skin-structure infection Haemophilus influenzae type b reactions, serum sickness. with food. ➢ Uncomplicated UTI meningitis. ➢ Instruct patient to ➢ Uncomplicated ➢ Use cautiously in patients with notify prescriber gonorrhea history of colitis and in those with about rash, loose ➢ Early Lyme disease renal insufficiency. stools, diarrhea, or ➢ Impe tigo evidence of superinfection. ➢ Advise patient receiving drug IV to report discomfort at IV insertion site.
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