Antibiotic Policies Controlling Hospital Acquired Infection /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gould, Ian M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Meer, Jos W.M. van der (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Microbiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Hospitals worldwide are currently suffering an epidemic of infections, generated in and spreading in those instituitions whose very “raison d’etre” is to protect and improve the health of their patients. This paradox comes at a time of possibly unprecedented investment in preventative measures (infe...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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
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