ISCCM Handbook on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance

Parikshit S Prayag MD ABIM ABMSConsultant, Department of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaRajeev Soman MD FIDSAHead and Consultant, Department of Infectious Diseases, Jupiter Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaSheila Nainan Myatra MD FCCM FICCMProfessor, Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; President, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) 2023-2024; Chair, Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Committee, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA)

• 1. The Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance in Indian Intensive Care Units2. Understanding the Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance3. Treating Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase and AmpC Producing Gram-negative Bacteria4. Treating Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella and Escherichia coli5. Treating Carbapenem Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii Infections6. Important Gram-positive Cocci: Mechanisms of Resistance and Laboratory Detection of Resistance7. Laboratory Diagnosis of Drug-resistant Gram-negative Bacterial Infections8. Treatment of Serious Gram-positive Infections9. Enterococci - Difficult to Treat Infections10. Clostridium difficile11. Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotics in the ICUMultiple Choice QuestionsIndex