Spectrum: Local Antimicrobial Stewardship, for Prisma Health-Midlands

General Susceptibility

Rate of MRSA:

  • Prisma Health-Midlands = 43%

  • Prisma Health-Midlands ICU = 40%

  • Prisma Health Richland = 42%

  • Prisma Health Baptist = 44%

  • Prisma Health Baptist-Parkridge = 43%

MSSA

Anti-staphylococcal penicillins (i.e. oxacillin) and cephalosporins (i.e. cefazolin) are optimal agents for intravenous therapy of MSSA infections.

Variable susceptibility to:

  • TMP-SMX

  • Clindamycin

  • Tetracyclines

MRSA

Susceptible to:

  • Vancomycin

  • Daptomycin

  • Linezolid

Variably susceptible to:

  • TMP-SMX

  • Clindamycin

  • Tetracyclines

By definition resistant to cloxacillin and cephalosporins.