Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center antimicrobial stewardship
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Antimicrobial stewardship committee
A multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship team meets quarterly to review trends in antimicrobial use, resistance patterns, interventions, and reports its findings and recommendations to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
- Dr. John Hostetler, External Physician, Infectious Disease Specialist
- Dr. Daniel Valancius, Director, Hospitalists
- Dr. Kelly Culbertson, Program Director and DIO, Family Medicine Residency
- Troy Hopper, Pharmacy Director, Pharmacy
- Matt Middleton, Clinical Pharmacist
- Greta Freeman, Microbiology Director
- Gary Latta, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator
- Karyn Lyon, Registered Nurse, Epidemiology
- Robin Cater, Registered Nurse
Team progress
- Implemented extended-infusion beta lactam therapy (for piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime and meropenem)
- Implemented rapid ID for blood stream infections and respiratory viral screening with PCR-based testing in lab
- Transitioned from tracking antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance, and stewardship interventions in Theradoc to Epic
Future projects
Convert the current reporting of antimicrobial use to NHSN via ASOLVA to Epic Begin reporting antimicrobial resistance to NHSN via Epic.
Antibiotic susceptibility reports
- Inpatient Antibiogram, 2024 [PDF]
- ECC Antibiogram, 2024 [PDF]