SBASSE

“Antimicrobial stewardship” refers to interventions designed to promote the optimal use of antibiotic agents, including drug choice, dosing, route, and duration of administration. To address antimicrobial resistance, the physicians must take on the stewardship role by appropriately  prescribing antibiotic to their patients and educating their patients and colleagues on the proper use of this increasingly scarce medical resource. In this set of lectures and case studies that are spread over 5 days, we will start by reviewing fundamental clinical knowledge necessary to use antimicrobials wisely. Then, we will illustrate how clinicians can incorporate this knowledge into their daily work using common clinical scenarios.

 More specifically participants will focus on the following:

• Antimicrobial resistance, transmission and global spread
• Antimicrobial Stewardship and why we need it
• Bug/drug combination; Antibiograms
• Stewardship in Respiratory tract, UTI, GI infections, Soft tissue infections, Meningitis, Blood stream infections, Fungal infections  
• Diagnostic stewardship