Dr. Le Saux is a Professor at the University of Ottawa and an infectious diseases specialist in the Division of Infectious Disease at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
She has a Royal College Fellowships in Internal Medicine, Infectious diseases and Anatomic Pathology. She is the Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at CHEO. She is curious about almost everything in Infectious Diseases, loves clinical medicine and has been covertly and overtly has been an advocate for optimizing antibiotic use even before “stewardship” became a buzzword. Other areas of interest include vaccine preventable diseases (rotavirus, herpes zoster virus, Streptococcus pneumonia). Guidance and publications have focused on optimizing antibiotic use in common infections.
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Cephalexin use in a pediatric emergency Department during the shortage of amoxicillin suspension
12/11/2025
During a significant shortage of amoxicillin suspension in Canada in late 2022, local guidelines recommended cephalexin as an alternative with restricted use of amoxicillin-clavulanate (AC). The aim of the study was to determine outcomes of patients with a diagnosis of acute otitis media (AOM), community acquired pneumonia (AOM) and pharyngitis who were prescribed cephalexin compared to other antibiotics in the emergency department (ED).