{"id":977,"date":"2025-02-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/?page_id=977"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:01:40","slug":"regular-intravenous-antibiotic-treatment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/research\/completed-projects\/regular-intravenous-antibiotic-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aims &nbsp;to determine whether regular antibiotics delivered into the vein can help improve patients with very severe bronchiectasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Key Conclusions:&nbsp;<\/strong>We found that regular antibiotics delivered into the veins given every eight weeks over one year made people feel better and&nbsp;reduced the amount of antibiotics needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patient Implications:&nbsp;<\/strong>Regular antibiotics delivered into the veins given every eight weeks is a therapy that can make patients feel better in those with very advanced bronchiectasis that suffer recurrent chest infections. When people need antibiotics so often we often use a midline (picture above) or a portacatheter (picture below). The midline stays in for the length of time you need the antibiotics and then is taken out but the portacatheter is kept in long term. This stops the need for venflons&nbsp;to be replaced every few days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2025\/02\/IV.doc-164x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"IV.doc 164x300\" class=\"wp-image-953\" style=\"width:169px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reference:&nbsp;<\/strong>Quarterly Journal of Medicine&nbsp;2013;106(1):27-33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2025\/02\/port-300x198-1.jpg\" alt=\"port 300x198\" class=\"wp-image-952\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aims &nbsp;to determine whether regular antibiotics delivered into the vein can help improve patients with very severe bronchiectasis. Key Conclusions:&nbsp;We found that regular antibiotics delivered into the veins given every eight weeks over one year made people feel better and&nbsp;reduced the amount of antibiotics needed. Patient Implications:&nbsp;Regular antibiotics delivered into the veins given every eight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":933,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/blog\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Aims &nbsp;to determine whether regular antibiotics delivered into the vein can help improve patients with very severe bronchiectasis. Key Conclusions:&nbsp;We found that regular antibiotics delivered into the veins given every eight weeks over one year made people feel better and&nbsp;reduced the amount of antibiotics needed. 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