Educational Tutorials – Deepening Understanding of AMR and AMS.

In this tutorial, Doctor Reem Almaghrabi explains how genotypic resistance markers can be effectively used to enhance antimicrobial stewardship in cases of pneumonia and bloodstream infections.

In this tutorial, Professor Humphries discusses inappropriate empirical treatments in bloodstream infections.

In these tutorials, Doctor Timothy Rawson, Academic Clinical Fellow, Infectious Disease & Medical Microbiology, Imperial College, London will cover:

• Why is microbiological diagnosis important?
• Microbiological investigations.

A third tutorial on the importance of microbiology in the management of sepsis is available in the sepsis tutorial section.

In this tutorial series, Doctor Yogandree Ramsamy from Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital, Umlazi, South Africa will discuss 

• The key factors to implement an AMS program;
• The value of diagnostics in AMS;
• How diagnostics can support AMS.

In these tutorials, Doctor Paul Yonga, infectious disease physician and clinical epidemiologist from Nairobi Kenya will address the question of AMS in Sub-Saharan Africa:

• Challenges;
• Opportunities.

In these tutorials Professor Philipp Schuetz from the University of Basel, Switzerland will discuss the clinical utility of procalcitonin to support antimicrobial stewardship in

• Sepsis;
• Low Respiratory Tract Infections (LRTI).

In this tutorial, Doctor Luke Moore will explain the role of diagnostics in antimicrobial resistance.