Checklist
for when you can use oral antibiotics
- Urgent treatment for severe and rapidly progressive
infection is not required
- Antibiotic with suitable spectrum of activity
available
- Able to achieve sufficient dosing
- Usually isn't for meningitis, endocarditis,
osteomyelitis, early phase septic arthritis
- Oral administration is tolerated and is possible
- Gastrointestinal absorption is not significantly
reduced (e.g., vomiting, GI pathology)
- Drugs where oral bioavailability equivalent to IV
- Azithromycin; Clindamycin; Fluconazole; Flucytosine;
Metronidazole; Quinolones like ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin; Trimethoprim
/ Sulfamethoxazole
(Adapted from the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines:
Antibiotic)