Health Tips - Chloramphenicol

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Chloramphenicol has completely altered the prognosis in typhoid fever. There is usually a dramatic improvement about 48 hours after this antibiotic has been administered. The dose for an adult is 1 g. by mouth followed by 0.5 g. every four hours until Some 25 per cent of individuals die within four weeks of myocardial infarction, mostly within 48 hours. A study of various statistical surveys of the mortality of myocardial infarction suggests that following recovery from an acute attack 20 per cent. Within five years and 70 per cent. Within 10 years. Thus the prognosis is not as gloomy as some times thought. Mortality increases with age, a past history of myocardial infarction, prolonged pain cardiac failure, shock, arrhythmia or embolism. The prognosis of patients with angina pectorals from coronary therm has been shown to be very similar to that of patients who survive a first attack of health myocardial infarction.