Intravenous to Oral Switch: Within Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (IVOST)
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Course author
- Gavin Barlow [Educator]
Description
Are you involved in the prescribing/administration of antibiotics? Explore the benefits and barriers of IVOST and COPAT.
Discover the principles and practices supporting IVOST and COPAT.
The use of intravenous antimicrobials and complex oral antimicrobial regimes within outpatient clinical environments is helping with non-admission to and early discharge from hospital. The course will lead you through the principles underlying these therapies, how to determine their suitability, and key practices for prescribers.
This course -by experts from the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy- is for healthcare workers who prescribe and administer antibiotics. It explores the benefits and barriers of IVOST and complex oral antimicrobial therapy in the context of an OPAT service.
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