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Recommendations

≥ 18 years
Dosage Remarks
vancomycin intravitreal 1 mg

+

ceftazidime intravitreal 2.25 mg

Syringes are supplied overfilled; vancomycin 3 mg/0.3 ml and ceftazidime 6.75 mg/0.3 ml.

Repeat injection 3 days after the first administration depending on clinical response

Comments

If unknown and post-operative: as above

If unknown and endogenous: add flucloxacillin 2 g IV six times daily + ceftazidime 2000 mg IV three times daily to the regimen

Also after the first administration: prednisolone 1% eye drops six times daily and atropine 1% eye drops twice daily