Antimicrobial resistance - time to start spending

START (Stewardship Tactics for Antimicrobial Resistance Trends)

BACKGROUND: Among infectious diseases, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death in the United States and is associated with a substantial economic burden to the health care system. Initiating appropriate empiric therapy can be challenging given elevated resistance rates among Streptococcus pneumoniae strains. OBJECTIVE: To present current recommendations for management o...

Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents

The main reason for the current unsatisfactory situation is that, worldwide, there is no effective regulation of the use of antibiotics. In many nations drugs are freely available "over the counterî and even in countries where most drugs are only available on prescription there may be little control. The practice in some societies of doctors prescribing the most potent drug available just in ca...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Broiler Production Explation–Steps to Start

There is nothing quite so helpless in this world as a baby broiler chick which has been snatched from the warmth of its surrogated mother, carted umpteen kilometers in a box dumped unceremoniously in a broiler shed and then told to get on with the job of making the boss a wealthy man. Yet within the space of 14 days, that same chick, under optimum conditions, will have increased its day-old bod...

Antimicrobial Resistance

1. Appreciate the implications of antibiotic resistance. 2. Understand the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. 3. Understand which factors contribute to the emergence of antibiotic resistance. 4. Understand the important role of the pharmacist in the era of antibiotic resistance.