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- 3. By 2050 deaths attributable to AMR could be as high as 10 _______ a year
- 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
- 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”
- 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
- 14. ____-spectrum antibiotics can cause other complications, such as infection with clostridioides difficile.
- 15. Both mis-use and ____-use of antibiotcs are contributing to antimicrobial resistance
- 16. First globally used antibiotic discovered in 1928.
- 21. Antibiotics are only effective if you have a _________ infection.
- 23. In an antibiotic age, antimicrobials save lies and add an average of _____ years to life expectancy
- 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
- 26. Something as simple as washing your ____ with soap and water can help reduce the spread of harmful bacteria
- 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.
- 28. Infections caused by microbes resistant to antibiotics are termed ____ resistant infections
- 29. Since 1984, no new registered classes of _______ for human treatment have been developed.
- 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. 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. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated one of the main measures by which infections can be reduced both in number and severity through ________
- 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.
- 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
- 7. First line treatment in cellulitis for patients who are NOT allergic to penicillin
- 8. WAAW is celebrated each year in November to bring awareness to the effect of antimicrobial resistance. WAAW stands for World AMR ______ Week
- 9. Many routine treatments may become too risky without antibiotics, such as setting bones, operations and _________.
- 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.
- 13. Antibiotics are not effective against ______ infections such as influenza and covid-19
- 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.
- 18. ___________ infections rose between 2013 to 2017 by 35%.
- 19. What type of antimicrobial is used to treat fungal infections
- 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 ___
- 22. Experts predict that in just over 30 years, antibiotic resistance will kill more people worldwide than ______ and diabetes combined
- 24. The word antimicrobials encompasses antibiotics, antivirals, anti-fungals and anti-_________