
#402 Don’t Get Caught with a CAUTI
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Treat a Gram Negative Patient With Enterococcus
If the patient is deteriorating immediately, you can add antibiotics and then it'd be a good store taking the antibiotic off. One thing to ask is, does this patient make stones? Are we actually getting some of the flinging of the stones? The other thing is think about, okay, so I get a gram negative and I get an enterococcus for callus, right? So should I treat the enterococcus? Again, if the foley is sitting in the perineal area is going to get colonized. And those bacterias are going to go anatomically, especially in women, more than in men,. They're going to go into the urethra and
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