NATS 1540 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.7: University Health Network, Leslie Dan, Antimicrobial Resistance
31 May 2020
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Assistant professor (status), leslie dan faculty of pharmacy. Pharmacotherapy specialist, antimicrobial stewardship program, university health network. Intra-abdominal infections (iai) occur in both the community and hospital setting. The differential for acute abdominal pain includes a wide range of infectious and non-infectious etiologies. Infections may involve various abdominal organs as well as the peritoneal and retroperitoneal space. Significant morbidity and mortality is associated with these infections. In iai: clinical controversy of the role of candida sp. Diagnosis and management of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adult and children: guidelines by the surgical infection society and the infectious dsieases society of. Clin infec dis 2010;50:133-64. (pay attention to sections iii to viii, xi, xii, xiii, xiv: chow aw et al. Dis med microbiol 2010;21:11-37. (pay attention to p. 15-26) Additional readings for patient cases: pitout jdd and laupland kb. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing enterobacteriaceae: an emerging public health concern. Lancet infect 2008;8:159-66: bush k. bench-to-bedside review: the role of beta-lactamases in antibiotic-resistant gram- negative infections.
