There is a drug, ceftriaxone happens to be the name. Ceftriaxone is a 3rd Generation cephalosporin or to the layman an antibiotic. This drug at my current internship site is a hot cake or rather very fast moving.
Scenario 1: Nurse walks into the pharmacy; “ Nataka Cef” 10 mins later another nurse ; Nimeleta files za paeds ;hizi ni Cef tu” The injectable drug happens to move, and translates to almost 75% patients in the hospital being put on ceftriaxone whether on inpatient in the wards or outpatient .
Being a drug expert, one gets worried as most of the time the drug is used as empirical treatment and later the treatment is not adjusted as culture sensitivity tests and microbiological investigations are not carried out. Most scary is that most of the time treatment sheets are not indicated if drug was administered hence hard to know if the complete dose was given.
My two cents, AMR is real. Bigger question is what are we doing to adress it as drug experts?
Ceftriaxone is a good broad sprectrum antibiotic that covers a lot of bacterial infections. It would be sad to see the drug become useless later due to overprescribing.
Concerned drug expert
Dr . Misoprostol.
AMR is real , forexample , a nurse comes with a file written Ceftriaxone but diagnosis is celebral malaria. ! Hard work must be put on this.
But also how can I get this article??