Search Tag: antibiotic stewardship
2021 24 Mar
Speakers Valerie Vaughn Director of Hospital Medicine Research in the Division of General Internal Medicine University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Neil Powell Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK Find Thermo Fisher Scientific on Social Media Read more
2020 25 Nov
SPEAKERS Prof. Carlo Tascini, MD Head of Infectious disease department at the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata Presidio Ospedaliero Santa Maria della Misericordia in Udine, Italy. Prof. Anucha Apisarnthanarak Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases Division at Thammasat University Hospital....Read more
2020 14 Sep
Professor Michael Mansour is a physician-scientist with a research concentration in immune responses against invading pathogens. He attends on the Clinical Transplant Infectious Diseases and Immunocompromised Host Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital - Division of Infectious Diseases, where he cares for solid and stem cell transplant recipients...Read more
2020 15 Jan
(I expert, I question, I answer) Have you got something to say? Visit https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/list/blog or contact [email protected] Jeremy M. Kahn Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Health Policy & Management - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health,...Read more
2019 22 Mar
At the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine , Dr. Michael Pulia discussed the challenges of antibiotic stewardship. Dr. Pulia, Assistant Professor at the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, serves as Medical Director for the ED antibiotic stewardship quality improvement programme at the University of Wisconsin. ...Read more
2015 07 Dec
The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases , the annual meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) is the most attended infectious disease conference worldwide. This year, more than 10,000 clinicians and scientists attended the congress to present and share the latest research...Read more
2015 19 Nov
According to an article published in Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice , the appropriate use of antibiotics is critical for controlling the ongoing epidemic of healthcare related Clostridium difficile infection. There is an urgent need to take steps for the reduction of the growing burden of C.Diff infections (CDI). C.diff is known to cause...Read more
2015 29 Apr
According to a survey of a national random sample of hospitals, nearly half of American hospitals aren't taking the steps required to prevent a gut infection that kills nearly 30,000 people annually and sickens hundreds of thousands more. The survey was conducted by a team from the University of Michigan Medical School and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare...Read more