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Antibiotic stewardship in long term care: making it work at
Bethany Health Care Center
Rohit M. Jangi, MDMedical Director, Bethany Health Care
130 Beds Average patient age: 89 Average life expectancy: 90 years Medical Staff:
◦ 1 physician (always accessible by phone) ◦ Evercare nurse practitioners.
Bethany Health Care Center
Comprehensive approach◦ to tackle the common and complex problem
facing long term care of the elderly.
Critical thinking◦ By staff at all levels
Prevention first, then treatment
Core principles
Prevention Oral hygiene Aspiration precautions Avoid feeding tubes Avoid psychotropic drugs
Treatment We do not routinely treat aspiration
episodes with antibiotics
Aspiration pneumonia
Prevention Skilled staff
◦ High CNA retention rate ◦ Residents rarely develop decubitii
Sedative use is minimized Wound cultures are avoided Treatment Use narrow spectrum drugs Don’t use cephalosporins.
Skin Infection
Prevention Hydration hygiene, Only send urine cultures when specific signs
and symptoms of UTI are present. Minimize use of indwelling Foley catheter;
most catheters are discontinued on admission
Avoid drugs that promote urinary retention
Urinary tract infection
Prevention All staff is educated in proper clinical
assessment, which includes taking history, clinical examination, taking vital signs , and reporting to physician/NPs.
We always do urinalysis along with culture so that no UTI is treated in absence of significant pyuria.
We treat all residence with home made yogurt after course of antibiotic.
Urinary tract infection
Treatment Often patients come in with diagnosis of UTI without
evidence. We take them off if no cause. If resident shows evidence of gram negative sepsis,
parenteral broad spectrum antibiotic is chosen only on day by day basis, and switched to narrowest spectrum antibiotic as soon as culture report is available.
Generally we wait to treat for culture is patient is clinically stable, monitoring closely.
Trimethoprim / Sulfa or Nitrofurantoin are drugs of choice as these drugs do not cause C. Difficile .
We treat all residence with home made yogurt after course of antibiotic.
Urinary tract infection
10 UTIs treated in 2013◦ Of these only 1 failed meet protocol criteria
Last UTI at Bethany Health Care: August 2013
0 cases ofC. difficile infection in 5 years 0 cases of other MDROs in 5 years
RESULTS