Antibiotic Stewardship in Hospitals During Public Health Emergencies
Publication Date: September 13, 2022
Key Points
Key Points
- This consensus statement advises hospitals and healthcare personnel (HCP) in ways to improve antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial use during infectious disease crises.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) often presents with findings suggestive of bacterial co-infection, leading to inappropriate antibiotic use and infections with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). This advice may serve as an example for future infectious disease crises
Recommendations
...mendations...
...should limit initiation of antibio...
...stic Testing...
HCP may perform inflammatory marker tests at...
...repeat laboratory testing only to the...
...nitor CRP if clinically indicated to...
...not use inflammatory markers as the basis for ini...
...obtain bacterial cultures or respira...
...During Respiratory Viral Pandemics and Epidem...
...ted at the time of hospital admissio...
...there are new clinical signs that are cons...
HCP may consider co-infection with...
...crobiologic and Radiographic Diagnostic...
...e initiating antibiotics, HCP should attempt...
...should limit respiratory multiplex PCR tes...
...uld restrict repeat microbiologic t...
...perform a nasal methicillin-resistant St...