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🔴 Liver enzymes should be monitored weekly in patients treated with daptomycin due to the risk of rhabdomyolysis. Statins may be withdrawn during daptomycin therapy for this reason.

💊 Antibacterial Drugs Effective Against VRE Antibacterial drugs with activity against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) include: ☑️ linezolid and tedizolid ☑️ streptogramins, such as quinupristin-dalfopristin ☑️ tetracyclines such as tigecycline, omadacycline, and eravacycline ☑️ daptomycin ☑️ oritavancin

🔷Antiseptic vs Disinfectant vs Aseptic vs Sterile 🔸ANTISEPTIC An antimicrobial substance applied to living tissue. 🔸DISINFECTANT Destroys microorganisms on non-living objects. 🔸ASEPTIC Free from disease-causing microbes. 🔸STERILE Free of all biological contaminants.

💊Furosemide Dosage Guide. 🔷Edema associated with CHF, cirrhosis, or renal disease. Initial dose: 20 to 80 mg orally once; may repeat with the same dose or increase by 20 or 40 mg no sooner than 6 to 8 hours after the previous dose until the desired diuretic effect has been obtained. Maintenance dose: administer the dose that provided the desired diuretic effect once or twice a day (e.g., at 8 am and 2 pm). Edema may be most efficiently and safely mobilized by giving this drug on 2 to 4 consecutive days each week. 🔷Pulmonary edema. IV: 40 mg IV slowly over 1 to 2 minutes; if a satisfactory response doesn't occur within one hour, may increase to 80 mg IV slowly over 1 to 2 minutes. 🔷Hypertension. Initial dose: 80 mg / day, usually divided into 40 mg orally twice a day.