Step II 2nd-line Antibiotics

[kaleerkalut]

I thought it would be good to create a running list of diseases where the second-line antibiotics should be known. This sometimes comes up in questions as a patient with an allergy to the first-line drug or a contraindication to the first-line drug. I'll start:

Lyme's disease - 1st-line doxycycline; alternative is amoxicillin or cefuroxime

 

[DrMcAvgLooks]

Syphillis
1st Penecillin
2nd Doxy
*if pregnant, desensitize to Penecillin and then tx.

 

[xtina0]

Psuedomonas PNA- got a question on each

Ciprofloxin and Pipercillin

if kid or alternative for adult

Aminoglycoside and Pipercillin