BOSTON - Most surgical patients with a history of penicillin allergy can safely be given the guideline-recommended antibiotic cefazolin to prevent infection instead of several penicillin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Antibiotic stewardship may increase preferred prophylaxis and cefazolin use in patients with non-severe ...

and levofloxacin). At this point we should point out that in our Hospital in cases of allergy to cephalosporines we used vancomicyn. The dose of cefazolin (1 mg/0.1 ml) was based on our ...

Avoidance of cefazolin in patients with penicillin allergy is grounded in research from the 1960s and 1970s that reported a cross-reactivity rate of 8% between penicillins and cephalosporins like ...