Overview
Explores the hypothesis that the increased use of antibiotics led subconsciously to a loss of emphasis on the importance of hygiene in the control of Hospital Acquired Infection
Contains chapters by acclaimed authors on all the major causes of Hospital Acquired Infection, including MRSA, VRE, Clostridium difficile and multi resistant gram negative infections which are increasingly pan-resistant and untreatable
Is an excellent source of information for students, researchers and practitioners in infection control, hospital epidemiology, antimicrobial prescribing and microbiology
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antibiotic Policies
Book Subtitle: Controlling Hospital Acquired Infection
Editors: Ian M. Gould, Jos W.M. Meer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1734-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1733-1Published: 26 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0208-8Published: 08 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1734-8Published: 25 September 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 209
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Immunology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Virology