The time and associated costs (drug, labor, supply) of administering a continuous versus an intermittent i.v. infusion of piperacillin tazobactam were compared. The total labor cost was calculated for ...

Prolonged infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics for sepsis or septic shock tended to improve mortality compared with conventional intermittent infusion in the BLING III trial, and a meta-analysis ...

To compare the patency duration of a peripheral intravenous cannula (PIVC) using either continuous infusion with 5% dextrose or intermittent flushing with 0.9% saline. Duration of PIVC patency was ...

Labor times are listed in Table 3. Nursing time required to administer a single dose of piperacillin-tazobactam was significantly less for continuous versus intermittent infusions given by either ...