WAAW 2024 Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. By 2050 deaths attributable to AMR could be as high as 10 _______ a year
  2. 5. ______ and control of infection in humans and animals means less use of antimicrobials and thus lower risk of resistance developing and reduced onward spread
  3. 10. The National institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) define antimicrobial stewardship as “an organisational or healthcare system-wide approach to promoting and monitoring judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their _______ effectiveness”
  4. 11. _______ provides essential data to allow the development of effective interventions and to detect outbreaks, and is a vital tool in understanding the extent of and risks associated with antimicrobial resistance
  5. 14. ____-spectrum antibiotics can cause other complications, such as infection with clostridioides difficile.
  6. 15. Both mis-use and ____-use of antibiotcs are contributing to antimicrobial resistance
  7. 16. First globally used antibiotic discovered in 1928.
  8. 21. Antibiotics are only effective if you have a _________ infection.
  9. 23. In an antibiotic age, antimicrobials save lies and add an average of _____ years to life expectancy
  10. 25. The _____ action plan (NAP) sets out the actions that will be taken across the UK over the next 5 years to confront antimicrobial resistance
  11. 26. Something as simple as washing your ____ with soap and water can help reduce the spread of harmful bacteria
  12. 27. Antimicrobial resistance is a ____ problem It is one of the top 10 global public health and development threats, and in 2019, AMR was estimated to be directly responsible for 1.27 million global deaths.
  13. 28. Infections caused by microbes resistant to antibiotics are termed ____ resistant infections
  14. 29. Since 1984, no new registered classes of _______ for human treatment have been developed.
  15. 30. The Keep Antibiotics ______ (KAW) media campaign was a multi-channel social marketing and communications campaign developed in 2017, focussing on increasing awareness within the general public and supporting GPs in prudent antibiotic prescribing.
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  1. 1. The Antibiotic _______ campaign celebrates its 10th anniversary this year! Go online to make your pledge today for how you will make an impact to antimicrobial resistance
  2. 2. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated one of the main measures by which infections can be reduced both in number and severity through ________
  3. 4. When caring for a patient with an iPortal tag for a resistant bacteria such as ESBLs should be ______ in a side room and should not share bathroom facilities.
  4. 6. To improve access to appropriate treatment and reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics, The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the AWaRe (Access, Watch and _______ classification of antibiotics
  5. 7. First line treatment in cellulitis for patients who are NOT allergic to penicillin
  6. 8. WAAW is celebrated each year in November to bring awareness to the effect of antimicrobial resistance. WAAW stands for World AMR ______ Week
  7. 9. Many routine treatments may become too risky without antibiotics, such as setting bones, operations and _________.
  8. 12. Antimicrobial ________ are developed to assist prescribers with selecting and prescribing antimicrobials appropriately. Here at UHNM, we have the MicroGuide app. These _______ take into account local and national resistance patterns to choose appropriate empirical therapies.
  9. 13. Antibiotics are not effective against ______ infections such as influenza and covid-19
  10. 17. An Antimicrobial product _______ model was introduced in the UK as a joint pilot project between NICE and NHS England, where companies are paid a fixed annual fee for antimicrobials based on their value to the NHS, opposed to the volumes used. Companies are paid between £5- and £20-million per year on a banding system. The aim of this project is to support creation of novel or new antimicrobials for use in the UK. No novel antimicrobials have been released since the 1980s.
  11. 18. ___________ infections rose between 2013 to 2017 by 35%.
  12. 19. What type of antimicrobial is used to treat fungal infections
  13. 20. In a world before antibiotics, which was as recently as the 1930s, people often died from infections like pneumonia. What was this period of time known as. The Pre-antibiotic ___
  14. 22. Experts predict that in just over 30 years, antibiotic resistance will kill more people worldwide than ______ and diabetes combined
  15. 24. The word antimicrobials encompasses antibiotics, antivirals, anti-fungals and anti-_________