Session Information
2011 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiogram Evaluation: A New Practitioner's Preparation for Antimicrobial Stewardship
Track:
New Practitioners Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 308-L01
Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011
Time: 11:05 AM to 12:20 PM EST
Location:
La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom, B, Level 2
PRESENTER:
Dr. Robert Rapp, PharmD, FCCP, Professor of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Dr. Robert Rapp, PharmD, FCCP, Professor of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky
Description
Bring your institution's most recent antibiogram to this session for evaluation by ID experts.
- Describe and differentiate isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli that produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) from those that produce Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPCs).
- Describe how to establish a plan to educate hospital administrators, physician leaders, and others about resistance patterns in your hospital.
- Describe methicillin-resistant Staph aureus and contrast this to vancomycin-intermediate vancomycin-resistant Staph aureus.
- Using your own hospital antibiogram, estimate the rate of MRSA, VRE, ESBLs, KPCs, and stably derepressed ampC.
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