Although specific guidelines for neonates are often lacking, antibiotic stewardship principles can be applied to the neonatal intensive care unit. Principles include accurately identifying patients who need antibiotic therapy, using local epidemiology to guide the selection of empiric therapy, avoiding age...
The judicious use of antibiotics is an important means to limit the emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms. Although specific guidelines for neonates are often lacking, antibiotic stewardship principles can be applied to the neonatal intensive care unit. Principles include accurately identifying patients...
Principles of Antibiotic Stewardship in the Critical Care Unit Ed C G Garrard, P Foex, S Westaby Blackwell Science, 149.50, pp 880 ISBN 0632 032 839Textbooks on intensive care used to be pretty sparse, but they are now widely available. So why do we need another one? This book represents...
In addition, the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria marks an important development and highlights the need for new antibiotics, antibiotic stewardship, and effective vaccination. To illustrate these ideas, we discuss the evolution of clinical information about pneumococcal pneumonia between the 1st ...
The term “antibiotic prophylaxis” refers to the administration of antibiotics to patients without signs of infection to prevent its occurrence. The term “empiric antibiotic therapy” refers to the administration of antibiotics to treat clinically suspected infections without antibiotic susceptibility test ...
. Taking into account both of these concepts in combination with other suggested ideas may promote more rational fluid administration aimed at avoiding both too little and too much. In analogy to the way we handle antibiotic usage in the critically ill, it is now time for fluid stewardship....
Antibiotic stewardship is a quality improvement and patient safety initiative focused on optimizing antibiotic use to improve patient outcomes, limit the emergence of antibiotic resistance, and adverse drug effects. Here, we discuss the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention Core Elements of ...
while they build their immunologic library of competence; on the other side, although many acute infections are expected and turn out to be of viral origin, caregivers will often ask the family doctor or primary care attending to reassure them by prescribing antibiotic treatment,...
The opioid stewardship model is born out of the antimicrobial stewardship model, and thus there are many shared characteristics. Both opioid stewardship and antimicrobial stewardship are based on the principle that there is an indication for a particular medication in the right patient at the right ...
Antimicrobial stewardship is vital to prevent the deleterious effects of inappropriate antibiotic use: increasing antibiotic resistance, drug adverse effects, selection of pathogenic organisms, and unnecessary costs. This article reviews basic elements of antibiotic stewardship and applies them to three common...