THE VALUED VOICE

Stating you cannot perform quality work in antimicrobial stewardship without a team-based approach, Dr. Bobby Redwood, WHA Physician Quality Improvement Advisor, presented What’s Your Antibiotic Stewardship New Year’s Resolution? A Simple Antibiotic Stewardship QI Project for Every Department in the Hospital webinar on Dec. 6. He stressed the need to be proactive, be preventive and use antibiotics wisely to prevent multidrug resistant organisms. How do you practice antimicrobial stewardship? Dr. Redwood said the mantra is right diagnosis, right dose and right duration—choose the narrowest of spectrum drug, use the appropriate dose based on patient’s vitals and medical history and choose the shortest duration that will kill the pathogen. He said the goal is to be multidisciplinary across departments.
 
More than 40 participants from Wisconsin hospitals and multiple Minnesota and Michigan hospitals attended the webinar. A link to the webinar can be found on the WHA’s On-demand Learning Center at https://www.wha.org/On-demandLearning.