Letters
Antibiotics carried in general practitioners' emergency bags
BMJ 1995; 310 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6984.942a (Published 08 April 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;310:942
- M J Colbridge,
- E L C Ong,
- G Baily,
- E M Dunbar
- Registrar Consultant physician Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Newcastle Medical School, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE
- Senior registrar Consultant physician Department of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine, North Manchester General Hospital (Monsall Unit), Manchester M8 6RB
EDITOR,—S W S Menzies1 highlights an important result in our survey that we were unable to elaborate because of restriction of space2; half of the general practitioners (1329 (50.4%)) still carried co-trimoxazole, and 694 (26.3%) carried ciprofloxacin. There are currently few indications for the first line use of co-trimoxazole (treatment and prophylaxis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia being one); even more disturbing is the increase in …