A Call to Action: Advancing Appropriate Antimicrobial Use and Infection Prevention through Partnership and Shared Knowledge

A Call to Action

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT

A series of 6 performance improvement continuing education programs focused on key determinants of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.

Preventing the development of and controlling anti-microbial resistance requires opportunistic and defensive strategies and a concerted effort of your physicians, staff and operational leaders. Gather your team for a continuing education series that allows you to learn with leading subject experts, exchange ideas and build the intellectual capital to change the tide of resistance. The next move is yours!

Visit our Call to Action Homepage Here: Main Call to Action Homepage

Part 1: Identifying susceptibility of bacterial isolates: Current organisms associated with nosocomial infection and antimicrobial resistance

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

It is critical to understand resistance patterns of organisms as antibiotic resistance evolves through a natural selection but also can be maneuvered by applying an evolutionary stress on a population. Recognizing which pathogens are most troubling at any one time, especially multi-resistant organisms, is critical to gain the upper hand against resistance.

Right Click on a link below and select "Save Target As..." to download the media files for this activity.
To open a link in a New Window or Tab, Right Click and select "Open In New Window or Tab" from the context menu.
Left Click to open a link in the current window.

Part 1 DOCUMENTATION -- Post Test & Slides

Part 1 AUDIO ONLY

Part 1 VIDEO & AUDIO

Part 2: Examining Antimicrobial Use and Stewardship

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

The development of resistance as a clinical problem is not predestined. The proper use of antibiotics, appropriate infection prevention practices, and other strategies will help restrict the selective amplification of bacterial subpopulations of resistant mutants. Understanding antimicrobial therapeutic decisions and implementing stewardship programs can help minimize emergence of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.

Part 2 DOCUMENTATION -- Post Test & Slides

Part 2 AUDIO ONLY

Part 2 VIDEO & AUDIO

Part 3: Minimizing Antimicrobial Resistance by Locale, Unit or Service Line

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Many factors contribute to the spread of antimicrobial resistance, but understanding that antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial isolates change depending on locale or units within a hospital is critical for containing the emergence and transmission of resistance. Even identical pathogens recovered from other units in the same hospital often do not correlate. Unit specific analysis of antimicrobial resistance and recognition of the possibility that the appropriate choice of antimicrobial agents hinges on the unique susceptibility patterns in a hospital locale is an important counterplay.

Part 3 DOCUMENTATION -- Post Test & Slides

Part 3 AUDIO ONLY

Part 3 VIDEO & AUDIO

Part 4: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in High Risk Patients

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT

The risk factors for infection change significantly depending on patient characteristics and ailments. Understanding which patients are at increased risk of acquiring an infection and which infected patients are more or less likely to harbor resistant bacteria is critical. Immunologic status, underlying disease states, severity of illness, and therapies administered are just a handful of the critical factors that must be considered to reach checkmate.

Part 4 DOCUMENTATION -- Post Test & Slides

Part 4 AUDIO ONLY

Part 4 VIDEO & AUDIO

Part 5: Human Practice in Perspective: Analyzing Failure Modes in Infection Prevention

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Failure to implement infection control practices and measures are significant contributing causes of infection spread in hospitals. Improving practitioners knowledge and intentions, translating evidence-based guidelines into clinical practice, and recognizing that infection control concerns itself both with prevention (hand hygiene/hand washing, cleaning/disinfection/sterilization, vaccination, surveillance) and with investigation and management of demonstrated or suspected spread of infection within a particular health-care setting (e.g. outbreak investigation) is critical. As risk factors change depending on infection controls, infection control becomes a game of strategy and tactics.

Part 5 DOCUMENTATION -- Post Test & Slides

Part 5 AUDIO ONLY

Part 5 VIDEO & AUDIO

Part 6: Re-shaping the External Environment

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Communities and consumer practices in particular, are a critical component of the antimicrobial resistance problem. The combination of susceptible hosts, inappropriate antimicrobial use, and cross-infection has resulted in community-acquired infections with highly resistant bacterial pathogens. As hospitals are the eventual site of treatment for many patients with severe infections due to resistant pathogens acquired in the community, understanding the external environment and changing public health practices are important initial positions and destinations.

Part 6 DOCUMENTATION -- Post Test & Slides

Part 6 AUDIO ONLY

Part 6 VIDEO & AUDIO