By Ethan Covey
Dosing IV cephalosporin three times per week is safe and effective in resolving infection—and preventing reinfection—in patients receiving hemodialysis, according to a study presented at the MAD-ID virtual 2021 annual meeting (poster A04).
The researchers wanted to know whether this dosing schedule would provide adequate therapeutic drug concentrations to prevent infections, while avoiding supratherapeutic drug levels.