Category list : Antimicrobial stewardship
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Working to support antimicrobial surveillance and stewardship practices Subscription
Two months since his election to chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Antimicrobial Expert Advisory Group, Harpal Dhillon talks to Julia Robinson about the role of the group and how pharmacists can best use their skills to tackle inappropriate antibiotic use.
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Why the newly licensed antibiotic cefepime should be introduced to UK formularies Subscription
Healthcare trusts should consider introducing the antibiotic cefepime to their outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy services to tackle infections that are becoming resistant to carbapenem antibiotics.
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WHO urges countries to adopt antibiotic classification tool to protect against AMR
The World Health Organization is encouraging global adoption of a tool designed to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
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Welsh pharmacy sore throat test and treat service ‘should not be routinely adopted’, review finds Subscription
The use of rapid antigen detection tests in community pharmacies for the diagnosis and management of people with group A streptococcal infections should not be routinely adopted, according to guidance from Health Technology Wales.
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Wellcome announces new efforts to survey global antmicrobial resistance
Wellcome has launched a new initiative to help improve surveillance of global drug-resistant infections.
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We need a national de-labelling drive for patients with penicillin allergy Subscription
False penicillin allergies are placing patients at risk of resistant infections and are a threat to antimicrobial stewardship; we must safely de-label patients to avoid these costs to public health.
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We must follow these five rules to avert an antimicrobial resistance crisis Subscription
Simply reducing the use of antibiotics, while discovering new ones, is not enough to keep resistance at bay — healthcare professionals need to understand bacteria’s evolutionary biology if they are to subvert it.
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Wash your hands to help save antibiotics
29 September 2017: As part of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) campaign on antibiotic resistance, Ash Soni, president of the RPS, and others hit the airwaves to explain how effective handwashing can help prevent infections. More than 20 TV and radio interviews took place, including on BBC Breakfast where Soni demonstrated the best technique for handwashing and pointed out that “it only takes 20 seconds to wash your hands properly, but if you get an infection you could ...
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US FDA approves antibiotic combination with new beta-lactamase inhibitor Subscription
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new intravenous antibacterial product, Avycaz, which contains ceftazidime and a new beta-lactamase inhibitor, avibactam.
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Urgent need for new antibiotics to tackle antimicrobial resistance, says WHO
The number of new antibiotics in development is insufficient to mitigate the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to a report launched by the World Health Organization (WHO).
