Advice
following an abbreviated submission:
ertapenem sodium infusion (Invanz) is accepted for restricted use within NHS Scotland for the treatment of intra-abdominal infections in children and adolescents.
Ertapenem should only be used second line for the treatment of the community acquired intra-abdominal infections resistant to the current conventional treatments and under the advice of local microbiologists or specialists in infectious diseases.
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Medicine details
- Medicine name:
- ertapenem sodium infusion (Invanz) Paediatric
- SMC ID:
- 291/06
- Indication:
- for the treatment of intra-abdominal infections in children and adolescents.
- Pharmaceutical company
- MSD
- BNF chapter
- Infections
- Submission type
- Abbreviated
- Status
- Restricted
- Date advice published
- 07 August 2006