MRSA risks and infections

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• Infectious Disease
  • MRSA risks and infections

Empiric MRSA coverage may be included in patients with risk factors for MRSA infection. Risks inculde:

• MRSA nasal colonization
• recent hospitalization
• incarceration
• necrotizing pneumonia or empyema (cover for anaerobes for pulmonary abscess and empyema) (pulmonary cavitary lesions do not need anaerobic coverage)
• recent antibiotic use
• previous MRSA infection
• IVDU
• Do not need MRSA coverage for urosepsis or intra abdominal infection
• Need MRSA coverage for line infection, endocarditis, soft tissue, pneumonia¹

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