Antimicrobial Resistance Is One Of The Top 10 Global Public Health Threats1
Antimicrobial (including antibiotic) resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites mutate naturally over time and no longer respond to modern medicines. This means that standard antimicrobial treatments become ineffective and infections persist, increasing the risk of severe consequences to the patient. If we do not address AMR now, we will lose the ability to safely perform routine procedures and surgeries.
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You Can Make A Difference In The Fight Against AMR!
Antimicrobial Stewardship Is The Best Solution To Combat AMR
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is defined as coordinated interventions which seek to limit patient exposure to antimicrobials. The goal of AMS initiatives is to ensure that the right antibiotic is given to the right patient at the right time, with the right dose and via the right route—causing the least harm to the patient. In realistic terms, it is a multidisciplinary approach that aims to ensure that patients benefit from the most effective antibiotic treatments, while limiting the side effects and costs of unnecessary treatments.
You can do more with Stewardship
- Detect, prevent, and control multi-drug resistant infections
- Minimize the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAI)
- Optimize the use of antibiotics
- Monitor and track resistance trends
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What Does a Successful Stewardship Program Look Like?
Effective stewardship interventions require collaboration, assessment and ongoing commitment from all stakeholders. Victor Leung, MD, is a medical director and medical lead for the antimicrobial stewardship program at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. In this video Dr. Leung describes what stewardship looks like at his hospital and the benefits they’ve seen through a continual commitment to antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.
Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiatives Have Proven Medical And Economic Benefits
Initiating a mixed-intervention plan that evolves over time will enable your health system to optimize antimicrobial use, increase efficiencies, and help slow the spread of AMR.
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Diagnostics Are At The Heart Of Stewardship
You can accelerate the impact of antimicrobial stewardship by optimizing your diagnostics.
- Achieve more rapid identification of pathogens
- Differentiate between bacterial and viral infections
- Gain knowledge of antimicrobial susceptibility
- Support better clinical decision making
bioMérieux’S Diagnostic Solutions Advance Antimicrobial Stewardship
High medical value diagnostics and data-driven solutions can be used to provide you faster, more optimized antimicrobial therapy guidance, to help improve patient outcomes, and reduce costs.
Putting diagnostics at the heart of AMS helps you drive informed therapy decisions from antibiotic initiation to optimization and discontinuation. Comprehensive solutions exist today to slow the spread of AMR and accelerate your stewardship program success.
bioMérieux is dedicated to helping you as a healthcare professional access actionable results faster because time-to-diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy are critical.
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