News and notices. Comm Eye Health Vol. 32 No. 105 2019. May 16, 2019
Erratum
Due to a printing error, the last three bullet points in the article ‘Emergency management: acute endophthalmitis’ were not printed.
The instructions for preparing ceftazidime 2 mg/0.1 ml for intravitreal injection are as follows:
Ceftazidime 2 mg/0.1 ml
- Reconstitute 500 mg vial with 10 ml saline
- Withdraw all 10 ml into 10 ml syringe
- Inject 2 ml of this solution back into vial
- Add 3 ml saline into vial to make up to 5 ml (20 mg/ml)
- Use 1 ml syringe to draw 0.1 ml of this solution (2 mg/0.1 ml)
The corrected article is available here: www.cehjournal.org/article/emergency-management-acuteendophthalmitis/