ILOs

• understand the need for careful selection of antimicrobial agents; prudency versus necessity and how antimicrobial policies and guidelines can achieve this
• able to identify the clinical clues which determine agent choice, route of administration, duration of therapy and criteria for modification of therapy
• understand how antibiotics promote HAI: individuals and communities
• understand how restriction of antibiotics (in spectrum and duration) can reduce HAI
• appreciate the importance of antimicrobial guidelines in a stewardship programme

• Hey, antibiotics don’t just treat infection…
• Look at the timeline of antibiotic resistance…
• Is antimicrobial resistance a new, novel issue?
• A schematic showing the innocent bystanders when we use antibiotics…
• Look at the spectrum of activity of penicillins…
• When we give an antibiotic, we might be targeting a specific bacteria, but… because of the spectrum of the activity, it can cause collateral damage… look…
• Read the wise words of Alexander Fleming…
• Does antimicrobial resistance correlate with human antibiotic use?
• What’s interesting about antibiotic use in the United States…?
• Why’s antibiotic resistance even something we’re concerned about?
• If we do nothing about this issue of resistance, what’s gonna happen anyway?
• What’s the link between cephalosporins and c. diff?
• Outline a consequence of taking antibiotics unnecessarily…