Understand Nuances of Antibiotic Dosing in Dialysis Patients

July 2020

We're getting questions about how to dose oral antibiotics with dialysis...since med labels and references may conflict or be murky.

Recommend usual doses of antibiotics that aren't renally cleared...including azithromycin, clindamycin, and doxycycline.

But advise adjusting other antibiotics by reducing the dose...extending the interval...or both.

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