The document discusses several key points for effective antibiotic resistance surveillance:
1) Diagnostic microbiology laboratories should standardize reporting of antibiotic resistance data and detect emerging resistance early.
2) Laboratories should generate reliable data by only including the first positive culture from each patient to avoid duplicate results.
3) Rates of antibiotic resistance should be expressed as incidence rates within defined populations, rather than just number of isolates tested, to allow for comparisons over time and between facilities.
4) Proper training of clinical microbiologists and a structured computer system can help effectively monitor changing trends in antibiotic resistance.
Specimens for bacteriology investigation should be forwarded as soon as possible to the laboratory in leak-proof, sterile containers.
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Specimens for bacteriology investigation should be forwarded as soon as possible to the laboratory in leak-proof, sterile containers.
Neutral glycerol saline should be added to stool sample if there is any delay before laboratory examination.
Complete early morning urine specimen (250 ml), for diagnosis of renal tuberculosis.
Plain tube (blood) for serology.
Blood clot may be cultured by adding a selective culture medium, e.g., for enteric organisms.
Blood for blood culture (blood culture bottle, liquid, 5 to 19ml, 50 ml). The blood is injected by insertion of syringe needle through a hole in the cap and through the central rubber or plastic liner. Don’t remove the cap. Blood culture at RT, not more than 12 hrs.
For serous fluids collection (pleural fluid), universal container is used.
Sputum collected in wide-mouthed disposable container.
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The lecture describes the performance and presentation of the antibiograms by the hospitals based upon recommendations of CLSI and shows experience of some of our MOH hospitals with the advantages and pitfalls in them.
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The lecture describes the performance and presentation of the antibiograms by the hospitals based upon recommendations of CLSI and shows experience of some of our MOH hospitals with the advantages and pitfalls in them.
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Combating Drug Resistance in The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)Apollo Hospitals
Drug resistance of microbes has become a major stumbling block to treating patients successfully in the ICU. There is no doubt that microbes have the capacity to mutate or acquire drug destroying enzymes, but a multitude of errors by health care providers plays a major role in facilitating the development of resistance. The maintenance of drug use discipline in closed ICUs and having a responsive microbiology department are the first steps towards prevention of microbe resistance. Having an infection control committee that is able to collect and disseminate data is the next essential step. Education of health care providers to provide uniformity of health care according to set guidelines is the culmination of this towards the goal of minimizing the development of anti microbial resistance.
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The world today is faced with very dangerous infectious diseases due to antibiotic resistance and in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has named this escalating antibiotic resistance as one of the top five threats in the country (CDC, 2017). According to statistics from the CDC, drug-resistant bacteria cause more than 20, 000 deaths annually and result to 2 million cases of disease recurrence annually (Lagier et al., 2015). For this reason, there is an increased need to make changes to the clinical practice to encourage appropriate use of antibiotics. In late 2014, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published a report on how to combat.
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Antibiotic resistance is increasing in Gram Negative organisms. It is important to know the antibiogram of the hospital to start empirical therapy. It can serve as a reference to clinician looking for information on antibiotic resistance. A retrospective analysis of the isolates obtained from January 2016 to December 2016 was performed. Samples were processed as per CLSI guideline. A total of 718 isolates were obtained. These were analysed for the prevalence
of MDR/XDR/PDR. It was found that XDR isolates are prevalent in our teaching hospital. The study showed an emergence in pan drug resistant isolates. The knowledge of local antibiogram
along with strong antibiotic stewardship program can help in guiding antibiotic therapy.This reduces antibiotic pressure among organisms and hence development of resistance.
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About the Webinar: Defeating Superbugs: Hospitals on the Front Lines
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Hospitals across the country are facing a grim reality in which some of the most deadly healthcare-associated infections they encounter are untreatable with first- or even second-line antibiotics. These “superbugs” affect at least 2 million Americans each year and lead to 23,000 deaths. And their threat is growing, public health officials warn. This editorial webinar and “Defeating Superbugs” white paper will explore the steps providers must take to ramp up surveillance efforts, promote appropriate antibiotic use and control outbreaks. Our panel of experts will share their organizations' experiences as well as proven strategies for success.
Registration for this webinar includes Modern Healthcare's “Defeating Superbugs” white paper, with proven tips and strategies for promoting appropriate antibiotic use, improving infection surveillance, identifying drug-resistant infections and dealing with outbreaks.
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- Tips for engaging senior leadership
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NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill.
Anurag Malani
Medical Director for the Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Robert Weinstein
Chief Medical Officer for Population Health
Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospitals System; Professor, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
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Editorial Programs Manager
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ANTIBIOTIC POLICY ROLE OF DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY
1. ANTIBIOTIC POLICY
ROLE OF DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
Many Hospitals in India have to develop the practicable Infection control and
Antibiotic policy. Yet no practically defined solutions to forecast the emerging resistance in bacterial
isolates If you scrutinise the patient case sheets, many patients are subjected to multiple antibiotic
use and in turn the path to recovery is complex and unpredictable and many times patients will be
spending life time resources just on antibiotics. However the young Microbiologists should make the
matters simple in understanding the basic facts on Antibiotic resistance
Use Standards on Reporting Results should use standards for reporting quantitative
resistance data (e.g. minimal inhibitory concentrations or zone diameters) that will detect decreased
susceptibility. This is necessary because numerical antimicrobial test results reported
qualitatively (e.g., as susceptible, intermediate, or resistant) may hide an emerging resistance
character in microorganisms with a small decrease in susceptibility that may still be classified as
susceptible. If you look into some of the CLSI guidelines the minimal changes are taking every year
may be even <2 mm zone sizes, updating the information becomes difficult, in spite of our best
efforts we will be missing resistance to new generation antibiotics, If we Microbiologists
communicate with professionals in the reputed organization can help us to get updated information,
or else patients lose the advantage of effective antibiotic therapy.
Generate reliable numerator It is crucial to avoid including duplicate results since a patient
may have either consecutive cultures obtained from the same body site or cultures from
different body sites yielding the same organism (e.g., urine and blood culture). Therefore, only the
first positive culture from the patient for each disease episode should be reported for surveillance
purposes. If we are including many repeated specimens in surveillance it causes confusion in making
the Data from the laboratory .This will be the reliable numerator for the antimicrobial resistance
surveillance.
Express resistance as incidence rate – what incidence means is true incidence is ‘the
number of instances of illness commencing, or of persons becoming ill’ (or dying or being hurt in
injuries, or drug resistance patterns whatever choose to forecast ) ‘during a given period in a
specified population’ (Last 2001). When most people use the term they mean the incidence rate,
which differs slightly in that it is the rate at which events occur in a population (Last year 2012). In
other words, incidence usually means something that is measured within a set number of people
and in a time period present year say 2013). It is important that we should not confuse with
prevalence rates, Prevalence (or to be more correct, prevalence proportion and sometimes point
prevalence) gives a figure for a factor at a single point in time (Jekel et al2001) The important words
are ‘at that point in time’ because prevalence can tell us only what is happening at a certain point.as
we talking about the data recordings of our laboratory as they pertain to the day to day working
with specimens received in the laboratory. It simply means prevalence of Antibacterial susceptibility
or resistance. It is important to express antimicrobial resistance rates as incidence rates within
2. a defined human population instead of using the number of isolates tested as denominators. This
is imperative because the submission of microbiology specimens to the laboratory is inconsistent
and varies broadly. In hospital settings, it is recommended to use the number of admissions and the
number of days of hospitalization, which are particularly useful for inter- or intra-health-care facility
comparison. It should be recognized that this process captures data only from patients
admitted to health facility and excludes those who attend as outdoor patients. Incidence can tell us
how many new cases of drug resistance been prevailing in a community, or it might tell us how
patterns of a condition within a population change over time. Unless we analyse the trends of
Antibacterial resistance in a given population or society we will not be able to forecast the existing
incidence of antibiotic resistance to any particular antibiotic we use or/ and changing trends in
antibiotic resistance in a given population.
The other considerations for an effective antimicrobial resistance surveillance include: Clinical
microbiologists should be trained in health-care epidemiology. The choice of micro-organisms and
antimicrobials to survey should be based on their relative public health importance, using criteria
such as expected numbers of cases, severity of the infectious disease as measured by its
mortality rate and case-fatality ratio, medical costs of such infections, and preventability
missing from surveillance reports, however that all Microbiologists should Insist to fill all the patient
data on the Clinical request forms.
A well-structured computer system with WHO (WHONET) open source software can be used for data
entry and analysis (http://www.who.int/ drug resistance/whonetsoftware/en/). The analysis
should be done at regular intervals and the results/observations should be shared within the
institution, with community and collaborative study groups. The WHONET if implemented in
Diagnostic laboratories, many matters on drug resistance are at our finger tips with a click of a
mouse which can be analysed with wisdom to asses and document changing trends in the Drug
resistance patterns, which can be forecasted at regular intervals.
Ref - Facts of information are generated from Step-by-step approach for development and
implementation of hospital antibiotic policy and standard treatment guidelines prepared by WHO
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