The nurse caring for a patient who has tuberculosis and who is taking isoniazid, rifampin, and streptomycin reviews the medical record and notes the patient's sputum cultures reveal resistance to streptomycin
The nurse will anticipate that the provider will take which action?
a. Add ethambutol (Myambutol).
b. Change the streptomycin to clarithromycin.
c. Change the streptomycin to kanamycin.
d. Order renal function tests.
ANS: C
The patient's current regimen is first-phase treatment. If resistance to streptomycin develops, the provider can change to kanamycin or to ciprofloxacin. Ethambutol is added if there is resistance to isoniazid. Clarithromycin is used during phase II. Renal function tests are not indicated.
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