Overview

FADIC Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

(OPAT)

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.

Related Courses

• Antimicrobial Stewardship Fellowship Program
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Acute Care Setting
• Patient Education and Counseling Program
• ABC of Bacteria Course

Related Mini Courses /One-day Workshop:

• Goals of Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Respiratory Tract Infection: How to Apply Antimicrobial Stewardship?
• Practical Guide for Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
• Antimicrobials Pharmacokinetic & Pharmacodynamic
• Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI) Prevention Program
• Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections
• Sepsis Training Program
• Antifungal Stewardship: Implementation Guide
• Antibiogram Best Use & Interpretation
• Urinalysis Tract Infection: Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Surgical Prophylaxis Antimicrobial Stewardship

Related Books:

• Pocket Guide for Antibiotic Pharmacotherapy
• Antibiotic Cards
• FADIC Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
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