Antimicrobial Awareness Week

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Antimicrobial Awareness Quiz

Test your knowledge on antimicrobial stewardship and antibiotic resistance with our engaging quiz! This is a great opportunity to learn about the importance of responsible antibiotic use and its impact on public health.

Join us to explore:

What antimicrobial stewardship truly means
The facts about antibiotic resistance
Best practices in healthcare for promoting awareness

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What is antimicrobial stewardship?

Promoting judicious use of antimicrobials to prevent them from becoming ineffective

Giving antibiotics for a cold

Not giving anyone antibiotics anymore because we don’t want microbes to become resistant

Taking antibiotics all the time to prevent becoming ill ever

Which of the following can healthcare staff do to help promote antimicrobial stewardship? Select all that apply.

Familiarise themselves with local referral pathways for infection prevention e.g., sexual health clinics and vaccine clinics

Prescribe antibiotics to everyone who asks for them

Maintain hand hygiene at work

Never wash your hands and let infections spread so more people need antibiotics

Tell your patients to return their unused antibiotics to their community pharmacy for disposal instead of keeping them for the future

Document course lengths when prescribing antibiotics

Use hand sanitiser as body wash

How many deaths in 2019 were estimated to be related to antimicrobial resistance globally?

4.43 million

1.27 million

550,000

3.71 million

True or false? If a patient has a penicillin allergy but isn’t anaphylactic, they can be given penicillin if the benefit outweighs the risk.

True

False

Which of these antibiotics is NOT recommended for use for patients with severe penicillin allergies, as per our Trust guidelines?

Azithromycin

Doxycycline

Co-Trimoxazole

Cefalexin

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