Antibiotic Usage in Acute Situations
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Drugs".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 55527
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2. The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Brisbane, QLD 4029, Australia
Interests: antibiotic administration (particularly pharmacokinetics); pharmacodynamics; clinical trials
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Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotics kill bacteria, depending on how much of the drug reaches and eliminates the susceptible bacteria.
Whenever I prescribe an antibiotic, two issues come to mind.
Firstly, the “O’Neil report”, which suggested that by 2050, 10 million lives a year and a cumulative 100 trillion USD of economic output will be at risk due to the rise of drug-resistant infections if proactive solutions are not found to slow down the rise of drug resistance. It proposed that, by then, more patients will die from resistant infections than from cancer.
The other statement that I am often cognisant of is that attributed to Einstein: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
Putting these thoughts into context, we should be using antibiotics when appropriate, at the appropriate dose. The unnecessary use of antibiotics not only subjects patients to drug side-effects, it drives bacterial resistance. Inappropriate dosing allows for bacterial growth, with concomitant poor outcomes.
Keeping these issues in mind, within the acute setting of the Intensive Care Unit, each day, we grapple with various decisions: firstly, when to start antibiotics, i.e., most of our patients will have a temperature and raised white blood cell count, and secondly, how to dose each patient appropriately.
The syndromes of inflammation in ICU are often difficult to differentiate from infections. In this edition of Antibiotics, a number of manuscripts will describe these differences and shed light on not only when to use antibiotics, but when not to use such important drugs unnecessarily. The second section of the edition concentrates on the appropriate dosing of antibiotics in acute settings, getting enough of the drug to the site of the proposed infection.
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Lipman
Prof. Dr. Jason Roberts
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotics
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacodynamics
- infection
- critical care
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