Newsletters

Antimicrobial Stewardship

The AHS Antimicrobial Stewardship newsletters provide short summaries of evidence-based, locally adapted information to help front line prescribers optimize their use of antimicrobials and management of infections.

Antimicrobial Stewardship Matters

• Amoxicillin-clavulanate IV - Update – Sept 2025
• Carbapenem Conundrum – Sept 2025
• Antibiotics: Consider The Risks – Sept 2025
• Antibiotic Resistance – What Can You Do?
• Infection vs Colonization - No Pus? No Problem
• Does Your Patient Truly Have a Penicillin Allergy?
• Hospitalized Pneumonias
• Avoid Fluoroquinolones as First-line Therapy

Antimicrobial Specific Newsletters

• Issue 24, Dec 2022 – Use of Daptomycin
• Issue 23, Nov 2022 – Bacitracin & Risks Associated With Use in Surgery
• Issue 22, Apr 2022 – Avoid Fluoroquinolones as First-line Therapy
• Issue 19, Feb 2021 – Amoxicillin-clavulanate IV
• Issue 18, Oct 2020 – Update on Vancomycin Dosing
• Issue 17, May 2019 – Ceftriaxone Dosing
• Issue 8, Oct 2015 – Optimizing Vancomycin Dosing & Monitoring
• Issue 2, April 2014 – revised Feb 2019 - Carbapenem Conundrum
• Issue 1, January 2014 – revised Feb 2019 - Meropenem Therapeutic Interchange

Syndrome Specific Newsletters

• Issue 21, Jan 2022 – Enterococcal Bloodstream Infections
• Issue 20, Apr 2021 – Candidemia in Non-neutropenic Adults
• Issue 15, June 2018 – Antibiotics for Gram positive Infections
• Issue 14, July 2017 – β-lactam Allergy
• Issue 13, April 2017 – Aspiration: Pneumonitis vs. Pneumonia
• Issue 12, January 2017 – Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Adults
• Issue 11, April 2016 – Cefazolin + Probenecid for Outpatient Treatment of Uncomplicated SSTIs
• Issue 10, February 2016 – Use of Oseltamivir for the Treatment of Influenza
• Issue 9, January 2016 – Clindamycin in Dental Infections
• Issue 7, May 2015 - C. difficile Infection
  • Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) - Slides
• Issue 5, October 2014 – Short Course Therapy for Community-acquired Pneumonia (CAP)
• Issue 4, August 2014 – Understanding Asymptomatic Bacteriuria

Optimizing Antimicrobial Use

• Issue 26, May 2024 – Oral is the New IV 
• Issue 25, Jan 2023 – Short Course Antimicrobial Therapy in Adults 
• Issue 6, March 2015 – The Day 3 Bundle: Tailoring Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy on Day 3