Treatment of resistant klebsiella

[freedom22]

My patient is bacteremic. This has been going on for weeks and every time we try a new medication she becomes resistant to it. Yesterday her C&S came back and she is now resistant to everything! She is resistant to all penicillins, cephalosporins, cyclines, levaquin, amikacin, meropenem and the list goes on. I really really care about her and feel so sad for her. She is young, A&Ox3 and the nicest woman I've ever taken care of. We think we know the origin of the infections but are unable to operate untill the infection is under control. So its a lose-lose situation, because the origin remains, and that results in infection, which prevents us from removing the origin..... She's had so many tests, multiple indium scans....

In a cases like this, what would be the next step to treast the infection????

[wooh, BSN, RN]

You need an Infectious Disease doc on the case.

[freedom22]

infectious disease is on the case, of course. Im just writing this because its been so many weeks with this pt and I was hoping someone has seen some kind of unconventional treatment work. I really want her to get better.