Antibiotic Policies Controlling Hospital Acquired Infection /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Gould, Ian M. (Editor ), van der Meer, Jos W.M (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Diseases.
Microbiology.
Immunology.
Pharmacology.
Virology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Required actions.

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