Pneumonia

Empiric Treatment of Fulminant Crashing PNA

  • Vancomycin – CA-MRSA
  • Zosyn/Cefepime/Penem – Gram negs
  • Doxy – Atypicals and zoonoses
  • Amphoterecin – Fungal (Histo, blasto, coccidiomycosis)
  • Acyclovir – HSV, VZV
  • Tamiflu – influenza

Case from HCMC of fulminant PNA in healthy young man that was blasto