Wound cooperation
August 17, 2016
ANTIMICROBIAL stewardship
(AMS) practices in routine wound
care management “should be
interdisciplinary, especially
including specialists in infection
and pharmacy, with input from
administrative personnel, the
treating clinicians and their
patients,” said authors of a
new position paper for the
British Society for Antimicrobial
Chemotherapy and European
Wound Management Association.
When prescribed, antimicrobials
should be as narrowly focused,
and administered for the shortest
duration possible, the authors said.
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