Know Your Antibiotics: Silent Sodium

 An inpatient is diagnosed with heart failure 💔exacerbation and pneumonia 🫁. They are on IV diuretics and IV antibiotics. What is a good way to lower sodium load to improve heart failure management? 

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Switch to PO antibiotics

Explanation: Sodium load in IV antibiotics can be clinically significant and potentially harmful to patients, particularly in vulnerable populations such as patients with heart failure. Judicious antimicrobial use can prevent harm. Opportunities to discontinue antibiotics should be considered. In patients that require antibiotics, interventions to lower sodium load include using oral antibiotics.

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