Antibiotic Stewardship in Hospitals During Public Health Emergencies
Publication Date: September 14, 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
...ecommendat...
...CP should limit initiation of antibio...
...ostic Testing...
...CP may perform inflammatory marker tests...
...repeat laboratory testing only to the ext...
...monitor CRP if clinically indicat...
...t use inflammatory markers as the bas...
...ould not obtain bacterial cultures or respir...
...iotics During Respiratory Viral Pandemics and E...
...treated at the time of hospital admission,...
...e new clinical signs that are consis...
...CP may consider co-infection with other v...
...crobiologic and Radiographic Diagnostic...
Before initiating antibiotics, HCP sh...
HCP should limit respiratory multiplex...
...ould restrict repeat microbiologic testing to c...
...P should perform a nasal methicillin...