Description
Speakers:
Patryk Majewski MPharm PGDip IP
- Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Antimicrobial Stewardship and Critical Care at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.
Learning objectives
After the webinar, participants should be able to:
- Understand how AMS tools such as CURB-65, PEN-FAST and IVOS (IV to oral switch) can support patient care.
- Optimise antimicrobial therapy through analysing culture results, adjusting dosing in renal impairment, acting on drug interactions and therapeutic drug monitoring.
- Understand the risk multi drug resistant bacteria and inaccurate antibiotic allergy labels have on patients.
- Understand the effect AMS can have on improving patient outcomes and reduce carbon footprint. To understand the effect AMS can have on improving patient outcomes and reduce carbon footprint.
Description
Antimicrobials are a scarce resource that must be used responsibly to reduce the development of bacterial antimicrobial resistance. Clinical pharmacists have the knowledge and skills to support antimicrobial stewardship through their clinical interventions. This workshop will focus on how pharmacists can utilise tools to support antimicrobial prescribing, ensuring the use of the narrowest safe antibiotics, facilitating the timely switch from intravenous to oral treatments and assessing the risk of true penicillin allergy to minimise the use of second-line antibiotics.
Responsible antibiotic use is closely linked with sustainability helping to reduce hospital admissions and the carbon footprint. This workshop will also explain the impact inappropriate antibiotic disposal has on environmental bacterial species and its connection to human disease, as well as how OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy) can support earlier discharge from hospital.
Patryk is a clinical pharmacist specialising in Antimicrobial Stewardship and Critical Care. He began his career as a rotational pharmacist, gradually gaining the knowledge and experience needed to work at an advanced specialist level in Critical Care. After a year in that role, Patryk transitioned to antimicrobial stewardship, initially focusing on antifungal stewardship. He later moved into a role that combined both his passions: antimicrobial stewardship and critical care.
Patryk divides his time between working as a clinical pharmacist on an infectious diseases ward and in a critical care unit. He is also involved in developing antimicrobial guidelines for the Trust and serves as a point of contact for antimicrobial treatment related enquiries. He is dedicated to promoting responsible and safe antimicrobial prescribing through active participation in the Trust’s Antimicrobial Stewardship group.
He strongly believes that pharmacists have the expertise to combat antimicrobial resistance through treatment optimisation. Additionally, he is passionate about raising public awareness of antimicrobial stewardship, as demonstrated in his TEDx presentation at Staffordshire University.
He graduated with a Master of Pharmacy from the University of East Anglia, completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy at De Montfort University, and undertook an independent prescribing course at Keele University.
