Essentials of Antimicrobial Stewardship, 2nd Edition

Essentials of Antimicrobial Stewardship, 2nd Edition

Essentials of Antimicrobial Stewardship, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive, clinically relevant reference addressing the responsible use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents. Written by Apurba S. Sastry, Ketan Priyadarshi, R. Deepashree and D. Sarumathi, it combines microbiology, infectious diseases, pharmacology and infection-control principles to support effective antimicrobial-stewardship practice.

This extensively revised edition incorporates recent developments in antimicrobial-resistance surveillance, diagnostic stewardship, susceptibility testing and hospital stewardship programs. It includes important CLSI and EUCAST updates from 2023–2025, along with numerous revisions and updated reference tables.

Key Features

• Comprehensive guidance on antimicrobial stewardship
• Updated information on antimicrobial resistance
• Recent CLSI and EUCAST susceptibility-testing updates
• Practical approach to hospital stewardship-program implementation
• Detailed coverage of diagnostic stewardship
• Guidance on antimicrobial selection, dosing and duration
• Discussion of antimicrobial de-escalation and optimization
• Coverage of conventional and specialized antibiograms
• Practical tables for rapid clinical reference
• Suitable for multidisciplinary antimicrobial-stewardship teams

Major Topics Covered

• Principles of antimicrobial stewardship
• Implementation of hospital stewardship programs
• Core elements of an antimicrobial-stewardship program
• Monitoring and evaluation of stewardship activities
• Antimicrobial-resistance surveillance
• Diagnostic stewardship
• Appropriate specimen collection and processing
• Direct microscopy and microbial identification
• Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
• CLSI and EUCAST standards
• Minimum inhibitory concentration interpretation
• Detection of specific resistance mechanisms
• Selective reporting of susceptibility results
• Preparation and interpretation of hospital antibiograms
• MDR, XDR and PDR bacterial phenotypes
• Empirical and pathogen-directed antimicrobial therapy
• Antibiotic de-escalation and treatment optimization
• Antimicrobial audits, feedback and quality improvement

Recommended For

• Clinical microbiologists
• Infectious-disease physicians
• Internal medicine and critical-care specialists
• Clinical pharmacists and pharmacologists
• Infection-control professionals
• Hospital antimicrobial-stewardship teams
• MD microbiology and postgraduate students
• MBBS students and medical trainees
• Healthcare administrators and policymakers

Book Information

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