Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist, Eric Christensen.

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All right.

So let's get in the drug of the day today,

and that is gentimicin.

And for purposes of this podcast, I'm going to primarily focus on systemic.

Most of the times we're going to be doing IV administration inside a hospital or in an institutionalized setting, potentially some outpatient IV therapy and stuff like that too.

But that's really going to be my primary focus here.

So primary uses of that injectable gentemycin, usually it's fairly severe infections,

but in situations where maybe we don't have many options or there's tons of resistance or something like that, you may see this medication utilized there too.

So urinary tract infections, meningitis cases, sepsis, in those severe situations, life-threatening situations, it's generally going to be used as

add-on therapy in empiric cases where maybe we can't utilize another agent or we need to

cover certain bacteria. There are a few other uses that are of note, I guess.

One I guess I wanted to mention was gonorrhea.

It is kind of a down-the-line option if patients have intolerances to some of the main

drugs there.

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