Overview

The first book was on ""Theory and Practice"" of antibiotic stewardship in its broadest sense -the how to do it and the do's and don’ts. The second, on ""Controlling resistance"" was very much on the relationships between use and resistance and beginning to home in on the hospital as the main generator of resistance, but mainly looking at it from a disease/clinical perspective. The last 3 chapters on MRSA, ended where the 3rd book will take off. ""Controlling HAI "" will concentrate on specific MDR organisms highlighting their roles in the current pandemic of HAI and emphasizing that the big issue is not so much infection control but antibiotic control, in the same way that antibiotic over-reliance/ over-use has caused the problem in the first place. Up 'till now the emphasis for controlling MRSA, C diff and all the other MDROs has very much been on IC, which clearly isn't working. This book will gather all the evidence for the increasingly popular view that much more must be done in the area of antibiotic policies/ stewardship, especially when we are in danger of a ""post antibiotic"" era, due to a real shortage of new agents in the pipeline.

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Author:   Ian M. Gould ,  Jos W.M. van der Meer
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2011
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9781441917331

ISBN 10:   1441917330
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   26 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Healthcare Associated Infections - The Size of the Problem.- The Antibiotic Paradox.- The Epidemiology of Pan/Extreme Drug Resistance.- Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship to Control Resistance - how should it be done?.- Controlling Clostridium difficile infection and the role of antibiotic stewardship.- The control of MRSA.- The role of antibiotic policies in controlling VRE.- The control of ESBL producing bacteria.- Controlling Hospital-Acquired Infection due to Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).- Control of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter infections.- The control of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas: Insights into epidemiology and management.- Multidrug-resistant infections in low-resource health care settings.- Germ Shed Management in the United States.- Required actions.

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