[Case Study] Keisuke Kagami and Mitsuru Sugawara “Concomitant piperacillin-tazobactam and vancomycin use increases the risk of acute kidney injury.” (AMR Alliance Japan, February 22, 2022)
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- [Case Study] Keisuke Kagami and Mitsuru Sugawara “Concomitant piperacillin-tazobactam and vancomycin use increases the risk of acute kidney injury.” (AMR Alliance Japan, February 22, 2022)
As part of the Alliance’s project to promote antimicrobial steward among medical professionals, AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) has begun publishing case studies from various experts related to antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Keisuke Kagami (Department of Pharmacy, Hokkaido University Hospital) and Dr. Mitsuru Sugawara (Department of Pharmacy, Hokkaido University Hospital / Laboratory of Pharmacokinetics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University) reports a case titled “Concomitant piperacillin-tazobactam and vancomycin use increases the risk of acute kidney injury.”
In this study, the usefulness of TDM (Therapeutic Drug Monitoring) for antimicrobial stewardship is reported.
Case study 05
Dr. Keisuke Kagami (Department of Pharmacy, Hokkaido University Hospital)
Dr. Mitsuru Sugawara (Department of Pharmacy, Hokkaido University Hospital / Laboratory of Pharmacokinetics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University)
“Concomitant piperacillin-tazobactam and vancomycin use increases the risk of acute kidney injury.”
Case study 01
Dr. Keiji Okinaka (Director of Infection Control and Prevention Section, National Cancer Center Hospital East / Department of General Internal Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital East /Division of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, National Cancer Center Hospital)
“A disseminated filamentous fungal infection that broke through echinocandin antifungal treatment”
Case study 04
Dr. Akari Shigemi (Division of Pharmacy / Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Kagoshima University Hospital)
“The importance of proper antimicrobial use for MRSA infections – Beware of rifampicin monotherapy induced resistance”
