Analysis of utilization pattern of antimicrobial agents

Amas in burn wards along with evaluation of supply chain management in a tertiary care teaching hospital

Abstract

Antimicrobial Agents are commonest used medicaments in all type of health faculty and specialty. It will not be trust worthy if one will say that he or she has not used Antibiotics in his life time or cannot claim that will not use antibiotics in future. To find out rationality of Anti-microbial use in different IPD BURN WARDS of a tertiary care.  All prescriptions single or combination of AMAs is included. No age, sex, race, residence, addictions and habituations, socio-economic state, co-morbid condition, height, weight not taken into account, except weight, age and co-morbid conditions such as liver and renal failure taken to determine type and dose of AMAs. Topical antibiotics, ointments, combination of antibiotics with steroids for local applications, ATT, HAART, Antineoplastic drugs, Antifungal antibiotics are not taken into study. The antimicrobial stewardship program is a must for every hospital and it should seek to achieve optimal clinical outcomes related to antimicrobial use, minimize toxicity and other adverse events, reduce the costs of health care for infections, and limit the selection for antimicrobial resistant strains.