Cefepime is a β-lactam antibiotic that is cleared through the kidneys. Elimination of cefepime is considerably delayed in patients with impaired renal function, and cefepime has been reported to ...

The frequency of neutropenia in patients receiving long-term cefepime therapy for osteomyelitis compared with that in patients receiving other antimicrobials was studied. A comparative case review ...

In adults hospitalized with suspected sepsis, piperacillin-tazobactam was associated with a higher mortality rate and ...

Cefepime was first introduced in the 1990s ... which showed that the drug was superior to an older therapy based on piperacillin and tazobactam, achieving clinical cure and microbiological ...

In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, clinicians make split-second decisions about which antibiotics to give a patient when a life-threatening infection is suspected.