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When: May 1, 2018
What: Free full-day conference focused on stewardship in ambulatory care settings
Who: Relevant for clinical staff, prescribers, and pharmacists in outpatient medical clinics, emergency departments, and dental clinics. Administrators and those involved in patient engagement and quality improvement are also welcome to attend.
Where: Wilder Center, 451 Lexington Avenue North, Saint Paul, MN 55104
Registration: Antibiotic Stewardship Conference: Focus on Ambulatory Care
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have developed new guidelines for Clostridium difficile, including new advancements in prevention, diagnostic methods and treatments for children and adults. The guidelines now include:
- Preventive strategies for epidemiology and antibiotic stewardship
- Specimen collection and laboratory testing using molecular tests vs. immunoassay
- New recommendations for antibiotics include vancomycin and fidaxomicin as the first-line treatment
- Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) as a recommendation for patients who have experienced multiple recurrences of C. difficile infection
- Recommendations on epidemiologic surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment of C. difficile in children
Learn more: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by IDSA and SHEA
IDSA has issued new guidelines that promote the use of fecal transplants to treat Clostridium difficile. C. diff infections are associated with antibiotic use that can destroy the natural defenses of a healthy gut microbiome. In the new guidelines, the ISDA notes a success rate nearing 90 percent of transplants, although long-term data on the effectiveness of the treatment is not yet available. Fecal transplants are intended to take the microbiome of healthy donors and allow them to flourish in the recipients.
Learn more: Fecal Transplants See Success in 90 Percent of Bacterial Gut Infections
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APIC
Minnesota is now offering its Basic Infection Prevention Course for
professionals specializing in infection prevention. Certified (CIC) Instructors
from a variety of clinical settings will provide real world problem solving
with peers, networking support, and discuss current regulations and standards.
Upcoming
course dates in St. Paul, MN:
April
25-26, 2018; July 26-27, 2018; October 25-26, 2018
Learn
More: APIC
Minnesota Basic Infection Prevention Course
Please join us for the third webinar in the MDH Injection Safety
Workshop webinar series on March 27, 2018. The Injection Safety webinar series offers
participants the tools to review injection safety practices within their own
facility and identify steps to create an injection safety program. Participants
must attend all three sessions in order to be eligible for
CEUs.
Learn more and register in advance to attend the webinar:
Injection
Safety Workshop Webinar Series
Contact the MDH HAI unit at Health.HAI@state.mn.us with any
questions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), representatives from the American
Society for Microbiology (ASM), and other endoscope culturing experts,
developed voluntary standardized protocols for duodenoscope
surveillance sampling and culturing.
The protocols outline steps hospitals and health care
facilities can take to reduce the risk of infection and increase the safety of
these medical devices. These steps are in addition to meticulously following
manufacturer reprocessing instructions.
Find out more on this topic during a webinar
with FDA, CDC, ASM and other endoscope culturing experts on March 22, 2018, 12:00-1:30 p.m. central time.
Learn more: FDA Webinar- Duodenoscope Sampling and Culturing
The winners have been named for the Lights, Camera,
Action for Antibiotics Video Contest! The finalists' videos will be included in MDH's portfolio of public and patient engagement materials. Thank you to all
who voted online!
View the first place video and
finalists: Minnesota Department
of Health Video Contest
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The CDC is offering a new web-based course aimed at
optimizing antibiotic prescribing. This course informs health care professionals about
proper antibiotic use, encouraging open discussion among doctors and patients.
Doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants,
certified health education specialists, nurses, pharmacists, and public health
practitioners with a master's degree in public health are all eligible to
receive up to eight hours of FREE CE from this course, which is accessible in
multiple modules offered in four sections. The first section is available now,
with additional content releasing later this year.
To learn more about this course, as well as other continuing
education opportunities, visit the CDC
Antibiotic Use website.
This course fulfills Improvement Activities (IA) Patient
Safety and Practice Assessment (PSPA)_23 and PSPA_24 under the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Merit-Based Incentive Programs (MIPS).
Register: CDC Training on Antibiotic Stewardship
Congratulations to the
Minnesota facilities who have received Honor Roll recognition for their
commitment to antibiotic stewardship! All honorees are listed on the Minnesota
One Health Antibiotic Stewardship website. Apply any time. New facilities are
added to the website quarterly.
Learn more: Minnesota
Antibiotic Stewardship Acute Care and Critical Access Honor Roll
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