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Tigecycline Intravenous for Adults

Who can administer

May be administered by registered competent doctor or nurse/midwife

Important information

  • Red light antimicrobial: Restricted for indications in the antimicrobial prescribing guidelines, or following approval by microbiology/infectious diseases

Available preparations

Tigecycline Accord 50mg vial

Tygacil 50mg vial

Reconstitution

Sodium Chloride 0.9% or Glucose 5%

  • Add 5.3ml to each 50mg vial
  • Swirl gently to dissolve.
  • This produces a 10mg per ml solution (overage in vial)
  • Dilute further prior to administration.
  • Reconstituted solutions are yellow to orange in colour - if not the solution should be discarded
  • Also discard if any particulate matter or discoloration (e.g. green or black) noted

Infusion fluids

Sodium chloride 0.9% or Glucose 5%

Methods of intravenous administration

Intermittent intravenous infusion

  • Add required dose to 100ml infusion fluid and administer over 30 to 60 minutes

Dose in adults

Loading (initial) dose

  • Give 100mg as a stat dose followed by maintenance dose below

Maintenance dose

  • Give 50mg every twelve hours
  • Treatment is normally continued for 5 to 14 days
  • Higher loading and maintenance doses may be recommended by microbiology or ID

Hepatic impairment

  • In patients with severe hepatic impairment (Child Pugh C) the dose should be reduced to 25mg every twelve hours following the initial 100mg loading dose. Child-Pugh classification applies to patients with cirrhosis. If the patient has hepatic impairment but does not have cirrhosis, dosage adjustment should be discussed with Micro/ID
  • Patients should be treated with caution and monitored for treatment response

Renal impairment

  • No dosage adjustment is necessary in patients with renal impairment.

Monitoring

  • Monitoring of coagulation tests such as PT, aPTT and fibribogen advised when using tigecycline
  • Special care is recommended in seriously ill patients and in patients also using anticoagulants

Further information

  • Patients hypersensitive to tetracycline class antibiotics may be hypersensitive to tigecycline

Storage

Store below 250C

References

Tygacil SPC September 2022

Tigecycline Accord SPC July 2023

Therapeutic classification

Glycylcycline antibiotic

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