1st April 2022

An 80-year-old inpatient who has bronchiectasis is to be treated for bronchopneumonia

An 80-year-old inpatient who has bronchiectasis is to be treated for bronchopneumonia. She has had many infections in the past, and she remembers a couple being caused by drug-resistant pathogens. She was admitted a couple of months previously for a course of IV antibiotics, and she recalls that Vancomycin was part of her therapy. What should this woman’s empiric therapy for her bronchopneumonia include? 

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