Stewardship Implementation in Intensive Care Unit in a Tertiary Care Unit and the Role of Clinical Pharmacist
Received Date: Aug 19, 2022 / Published Date: Sep 22, 2022
Abstract
We tried to analyse the stewardship interventions in a tertiary care hospital, optimize the antibiotic utility to combact the antibiotic resistance. Clinical pharmacists are trained and engaged in the stewardship management, they have an extensive role in optimizing the rationale use of antibiotics, combact the antibiotic resistance, implement interventions, prevent adverse drug events and improve the patient quality by decreasing the hospital costs and length of stay. As a result, rapid stewardship interventions by clinical pharmacist had significant outcomes.
Keywords: Clinical pharmacists; Antimicrobial stewardship; Intensive care unit; Multidrug resistance; Intervention; Antibiotics; ADR: Adverse Drug Reactions
Citation: Raghavapuram N, Narmada T (2022) Stewardship Implementation in Intensive Care Unit in a Tertiary Care Unit and the Role of Clinical Pharmacist. J Infect Dis Ther S2:001. Doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.23.S2.001
Copyright: © 2022 Raghavapuram N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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