A study by the University of Queensland and the George Institute for Global Health suggests that changing the best way antibiotics are administered to adult patients with sepsis could save 1000’s of lives worldwide annually. A clinical trial and a scientific review have shown that intravenous administration of commonly used penicillin-like antibiotics by continuous infusion […]
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Latest findings from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal the extensive overuse of antibiotics through the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, which could have exacerbated the “silent” spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). While only 8% of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 had bacterial co-infections that required antibiotics, three out of 4, or about 75%, of patients were treated […]