Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Preface


• Abbreviations


• Section 1: Setting the scene and starting up:


• 1: Susan Hopkins: The international and national challenges faced in ensuring the prudent use of antimicrobials


• 2: Fiona Robb and Andrew Seaton: What are the principles and goals of antimicrobial stewardship


• 3: Esmita Charani and Gabriel Birgand: Managing behaviours: Social, cultural and psychological aspects of antibiotic prescribing and use


• 4: Patrick Doyle: Implementing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme


• Section 2: Components of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program


• 5: Antonia Scobie, Mark Gilchrist, Laura Whitney and Matthew Laundy: Managing antimicrobials on the shop floor


• 6: Hayley Wickens: Measuring antibiotic consumption and outcomes


• 7: Jacqueline Sneddon and Billy Malcolm: Measuring and feeding back stewardship


• 8: Matthew Laundy: Information technology in antimicrobial stewardship


• Section 3: Special Areas in Antimicrobial Stewardship


• 9: Jason Roberts and Menino Osbert Cotta: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Principles of Antimicrobials


• 10: Peter Riley: The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory in Antimicrobial Stewardship


• 11: Haifa Lyster: Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Immuno-Compromised Patient


• 12: Jonathan Ball: Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Intensive Care Setting


• 13: Tamsin Oswald, Simon Jameson, Mike Reed: Surgical Prophylaxis


• 14: Sanjay Patel and Julia Bielicki: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Paediatrics


• 15: Naomi Flemming: Stewardship in the primary care and long term care setting


• 16: Laura Whitney and Tihana Bicanic: Antifungal Stewardship


• 17: Matthew Dryden: Near Patient Testing and infection biomarkers


• 18: Marc Mendelsohn: Antimicrobial Stewardship in a Resource Poor Setting

Matthew Laundy is a consultant microbiologist at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has a special interest in antimicrobial stewardship, OPAT, paediatric infections and medical informatics. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Mark Gilchrist is a Consultant Pharmacist in Infectious Diseases at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College, London. Mark has a specialist interest in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and global antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. Mark is a past chair of UK Clinical Pharmacy Infection Network and is a spokesman for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on Antimicrobials. In 2013 Mark was awarded Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Faculty.

Laura Whitney is a Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist at St George's University Hospitals NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Kingston University. Her specialist interests include; antimicrobial stewardship, management of invasive fungal infections, and the treatment and prevention of Clostridium difficile infection. Laura is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and is a current committee member of the UK Pharmacy Infection Network.

...a well written introduction into the field and is suitable both for beginners and experts who want to use this book as a reference work Oliver Schildgen, New Publications in Medical Microbiology Antimicrobial Stewardship