Home intravenous antibiotic therapy.

摘要: Concern regarding the soaring costs of in-hospital treatment has stimulated interest in providing alternatives when patients no longer need careful observation and daily nursing care. To facilitate ongoing intravenous antibiotic therapy for selected patients, home or outpatient programs have been developed. Such therapies require a team approach with an emphasis on patient selection criteria, educational strategies, as well follow-up. It is likely that near future more anti-infective will be tailored to infectious complications acquired immune deficiency syndrome than conditions. The increasing number effective new oral drugs undoubtedly reduce specific infections such septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, urinary tract pneumonia.