Dear all,
The institute has an established antimicrobial stewardship program (AMSP) section for quality patient care for a few years, stabilized during the COVID-19 pandemic. Optimizing the use of antimicrobials is critical to effectively treat infections, protect patients from harm caused by unnecessary use, and combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Hospital AMSP can increase cure rates while reducing treatment failures, C. difficile infections, adverse effects, AMR, hospital costs, and lengths of stay.
The mission is simple i.e. to practice antimicrobial stewardship for a safe and healthy society.
The objectives of the AMSP will be to share knowledge about antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices in the institute through meetings, orders, circulars, conferences, publications, or other educational and research activities; To promote skills to various healthcare cadres through capacity-building workshops, short discussions and develop tools/mechanisms for enabling AMS practices in own working areas; To promote research and innovations in various depts for better health-related outcomes by employing AMS practices along with standard of care; To develop institute benchmarks on key indicators of the AMS; and To prepare and update regularly guidelines/guidance documents on the same.
Few targets to achieve these objectives are:
- Zero tolerance to antimicrobial prescriptions without writing ID Diagnosis and without following dept specific antimicrobial policy
- Decreasing turn-around time for all microbiological diagnosis
- Improving optimal utilization of antimicrobials by considering PK/PD parameters
- Achieving 100% regular AMSP training for all health care workers
Few important orders/circulars:
1) AIIMSR Antibiotic Policy 2020
2) IAS practice Guidance_version 1.0_WAAW 2021_AIIMSR
3) ID Practice Document – Right Diagnosis and Treatment_AIIMSR
4) AIIMSR AMSP Committee
5) Guidance for Preparing Reserve group of Antimicrobials
6) Guidance for use of time-kinetic antimicrobials
7) Guidance for Preparing Clinical antibiograms
8) PEAK SOP_version 2.0_AIIMSR
Let’s practice infection prevention, source control, right diagnosis, and right antimicrobial utilization w.r.t. drug, it’s dose, delivery, duration, and decision on followup.
Enclosure