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This document provides guidelines for switching patients from intravenous to oral antibiotics. Candidates for step-down therapy must be able to tolerate oral medications and have a functioning GI tract. The infection must be treatable with oral antibiotics that have similar activity to the IV drugs. Patients should be hemodynamically stable with improving vital signs. Some infections like meningitis are not suitable for oral antibiotics due to inadequate drug concentrations. The document lists equivalent or

Author

Gayle Grey

Language

EN