(HealthDay News) — For hospitalized children, coadministration of intravenous (IV) vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam is associated with increased risk of acute ...

Researchers assessed the effects of different empiric antibiotic regimens on the risk for acute kidney injury among patients admitted to the intensive care unit. The risk for acute kidney injury was ...

Vancomycin + piperacillin-tazobactam therapy has been linked to a higher risk of AKI No significant difference was seen in the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) development or other outcomes ...

Rounding in the intensive care unit (ICU), you're three patients deep with 20-plus to go. Already you're bobbing in a vancomycin-piperacillin-tazobactam (vanc-PT) sea, your mouth salty from the ...

The concomitant use of vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam has been the focus of increasing clinical scrutiny due to its association with acute kidney injury (AKI). Vancomycin, a potent ...

Concomitant use of PT with vancomycin was associated with increased nephrotoxicity, with an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 5.36 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.41-20.5). [4] The results of these studies ...

Credit: istockphoto New studies may clarify the risks associated with antibiotic combinations that include vancomycin, a drug with well-known nephrotoxicities. SAN ...

People believed to have sepsis who take piperacillin-tazobactam (Zosyn) and vancomycin have a 5% absolute mortality increase at 90 days compared with those who take cefepime and vancomycin, a new ...