Superbugs evolve in a few ways. When bacteria grow and spread, they can develop mutations in their DNA that make them resistant to certain types of drugs.
“If I had waited another hour, my husband would probably have died”
“When he returned from the bathroom, that’s when it really hit me that this was serious. He was sweating as if he just worked out. His skin was greyish yellow. He really looked like death.”
The Key Component that Sepsis Protocol and Antibiotic Stewardship Have in Common
At Morton Plant Hospital BayCare Health System (MPMHC), we’ve learned the key to saving lives from sepsis without increasing antibiotic resistance is Procalcitonin (PCT) testing.
Balancing the Use of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics and Patient Health
The challenge is how to quickly determine which patients really need powerful drugs and which do not. Good antibiotic stewardship is a race against the clock. If patients need those drugs and don’t receive them in a timely manner, it may become too late to help them.
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