Open AccessClinical-pharmacological approach to etiotropic therapy of acute pneumonia
Author(s) -
Awi Wiesel
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj81127
Subject(s) - antibiotics , medicine , gentamicin , lincomycin , pneumonia , intensive care medicine , antibiotic therapy , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The purpose of the lecture is to encourage the general practitioner to act justifiably when choosing (means of treatment of pneumonia. It is necessary to abandon such a vicious scheme, when the patient is recommended to have injections of gentamicin or (!) lincomycin (antibiotics of different groups with significantly different antibacterial spectrum of action) only because they do not need to be done every 4 hours. Experience of advanced clinics of the world shows that gentamicin is used in the treatment of pneumonias not more often than 6% of cases, that tablet antibiotics are no less effective, that not all vitamin preparations can be prescribed during antibiotic therapy.