What is meant by Antibiotic-stewardship = ABS?

The uncritical use of antibiotics leads to the spread of resistance. As a result, infectious diseases are more difficult to treat, and in some cases no longer treatable at all.

An interdisciplinary team develops strategies to ensure the rational use of antibiotics. The aims of the ABS are

-Improvement of antimicrobial therapy (duration, type of application, choice of substance)

-Avoidance of complications caused by antibiotic therapies (e.g. antibiotic-associated colitis).

-Reducingthe development of antibiotic resistance and thus maintaining efficient antibiotic therapies in the future

Tasks at the UKU:

-Drafting of the in-house anti-infectives guideline

-Carrying out ABS visits

-Individual counselling in the context of ABS consils

-Participation in the interdisciplinary infection board

-Conducting training courses on the implementation of the guidelines

-Participation in interdisciplinary teaching events

-analysing the resistance statistics

-analysing antibiotic consumption data

Core team:

Dr Martina Furitsch

Specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology

ABS expert (DGI)

Head of ABS team UKU

martina.furitsch@uniklinik-ulm.de

Phone: 0731-500-65334

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Dr Johanna Backhus, Internal Medicine I

Prof H. von Baum; Department of Hospital Hygiene

Prof A. Essig; Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene

Prof Beate Grüner; Section of Clinical Infectiology

Christiane Glöggler, Pharmacy

Michael Hicks; Pharmacy

Dr Matti Hofmann, Trauma Surgery

Dr Ludwig Maier; Pharmacy

PD Dr Benedikt Nußbaum, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Dr Mehtap Sirin, Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Dr Olivia Trappe, RKU

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The ABS team at the UKU is made up of the core team and the ABS officers from the individual specialist departments.