Evaluation of a standardized daptomycin dosing nomogram.

Purpose: Implementation of a standardized daptomycin dosing protocol in a community teaching hospital to determine potential cost savings, effectiveness, and safety is presented.

Methods: A retrospective review of randomly selected patients receiving daptomycin therapy from October 2013 to January 2014 was performed to establish a preimplementation patient control group. A specific time for preparing daptomycin in the i.

Infusion-related reaction following daptomycin two-minute rapid intravenous administration.

Background: Erythroderma, or red man's syndrome, is a common infusion-related reaction following vancomycin administration. Erythroderma following daptomycin rapid infusion has not been documented.

Objective: To report a case of erythroderma following daptomycin 2-minute intravenous (IV) injection.