Antibiotics carried in general practitioners' emergency bags.

Drugs for the doctor’s bag 1989

“…immediate treatment of urgent cases attended outside the surgery. we opposed the universal substitution of netilmicin (Netillin -Kirby-Warrick) for gentamicin and tobramycin although it is said to be less t0xic.l Bacterial endocarditis is an exception where netilmicin may sometimes be preferable to gentamicin,2 for example in the elderly o r those with impaired renal o r vestibular function 3. We reassess the claimed advantages of netilmicin in the light of recent data.ACTIVITY: Gram-negative organisms -Of over 4000 isolates of Gram-negative bacilli (from blood and urine) from 20 laboratories in Britain, resistance to gentamicin, tobramycin and netilmicin was of a similar order, about 2-3W.4…”

Antibiotics carried in general practitioners' emergency bags: four years on

“…In 1988 we found in a survey of 115 general practitioners that fewer than half of them carried parenteral penicillin in their emergency bags 1. Since then there has been much publicity and education among doctors about the role of treating patients early with antibiotics to reduce mortality from bacterial meningitis 2 3 4.…”