METRONIDAZOLE NORIDEM, (Interpharma Pty Ltd)

Treatment of severe anaerobic infection when oral medication is not possible or is contraindicated, when immediate anti-anaerobic therapy is required.

Metronidazole may be used prophylactically to prevent infection of the surgical site which may have been contaminated or potentially contaminated with anaerobic organisms. Procedures in which this may be assumed to have happened include appendectomy, colonic surgery, vaginal hysterectomy, abdominal surgery in the presence of anaerobes in the peritoneal cavity and surgery performed in the presence of anaerobic septicaemia.