Spectrum: Local Antimicrobial Stewardship, for Prisma Health Children’s Hospital-Midlands

≥ 30 Days

Initial Empiric PO Treatment

SMX/TMP PO

Alternative Treatment

Doxycycline PO

  • Alternative treatment

  • OR patients with sulfa allergy

OR

Clindamycin PO
  • Patients with sulfa allergy

AND

Cephalexin PO
  • Patients with sulfa allergy

De-Escalation

Once susceptibilities are available, de-escalate to narrowest spectrum PO antibiotic

Duration

7 days of antibiotics following I & D