FADIC Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)

FADIC Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) refers to outpatient or community-based management of an infection via the administration of an intravenous (IV) antibiotics

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Duration

E-Book

Course Project

Language

English

Course Starting

Year

2024

Overview

Overview

FADIC Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

(OPAT)

FADIC Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy Book


Introduction

  • Patients may be managed without admission or may transition to OPAT following hospitalisation. By minimising hospital stay, OPAT is increasingly recognised as a cost-efficient and acceptable management strategy for a variety of selected patients requiring either short- or medium-to long-term parenteral therapy.
  • The definition of OPAT is the administration of parenteral antimicrobial therapy in at least 2 doses on different days without intervening hospitalisation.
  • The primary goal of an OPAT program is to allow patients to complete treatment
    safely and effectively in the comfort of their home or another outpatient site.

Content

  • Overview
  • Patient Selection and Education
  • Infectious diseases that we can use the OPAT in them
  • Monitoring of OPAT
  • Antimicrobial Selection for OPAT
  • Models of OPAT
  • OPAT Quality Assurance & Outcomes

Initiation of OPAT requires that a physician determine that such therapy is needed to treat a defined infection, that hospitalisation is not needed to control the infection, and that alternate routes of drug delivery are not feasible or appropriate.

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