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Can I read Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit on EtoBox?
Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit by Zeynep Ture; Rahmet Güner; Emine Alp is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit about?
High resistance rates to antimicrobials continue to be a global health threat. The incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) microorganisms in intensive care units (ICUs) is quite high compared to in the community and other units in the hospital because ICU patients are generally older, have higher numbers of co-morbidities and immune-suppressed; moreover, the typically high rates of invasive procedures performed in the ICU increase the risk of infection by MDR microorganisms. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) refers to the implementation of coordinated interventions to improve and track the appropriate use of antibiotics while offering the best possible antibiotic prescription (according to dose, duration, and route of administration). Broad-spectrum antibiotics are frequently preferred in ICUs because of greater infection severity and colonization and infection by MDR microorganisms. For this reason, a number of studies on AMS in ICUs have increased in recent years. Reducing the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics forms the basis of AMS. For this purpose, parameters such as establishing an AMS team, limiting the use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials, terminating treatments early, using e
Who reads Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Intensive Care Unit?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Zeynep Ture; Rahmet Güner; Emine Alp
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)