Antibiotics

FOAMEd Wiki - antibiotics, last updated 4/6/25

General Approach	Source	Year
Antimicrobial Use in the Emergency Department – Pearls and Pitfalls	emDocs	2018
Antibiotics	IBCC	2023

Antibiotic Allergies	Source	Year
Approach to Beta-Lactam Allergy in Critical Care	IBCC	2024
Beta-Lactam Allergy? Let's Try a Beta-Lactam Challenge	JournalFeed	2021
Piperacillin-Tazobactam and Penicillin Allergy Cross-Reactivity	PulmCrit	2021
Validation of Test-Dose Strategy for Beta-Lactam Allergies	EMCrit	2017
PEN-FAST - Penicillin Allergy Risk Tool	JournalFeed $	2020
Penicillin Allergy Risk Tool (PEN-FAST) Calculator	MDCalc

Literature Review / Specific Antibiotics	Source	Year
Azithromycin and QT Prolongation: Myth-Busting	PulmCrit	2015
Delayed Antibiotics Are (Mostly) Dumb	First10EM	2021
Fluoroquinolones - and Aortic Dissection – Again	JournalFeed	2018
Fluoroquinolone - Risk in Known Aortic Dissection-Aortic Aneurysm Patients	JournalFeed	2021
Fluoroquinolones - Dissection Risk	JournalFeed	2023
Fluoroquinolones - and Sudden Death	JournalFeed	2019
Soft Tissue - Oral Antibiotics Are Equivalent to IV (Again) – The OVIVA Trial	First10EM	2019
Vancomycin/Piperacillin-Tazobactam and AKI	JournalFeed	2018