4 - 5 March 2011, Belgrade, Serbia

Course Objectives

This course provides participants with up-to-date background information and a practical approach to the emerging problem of antibiotic resistance and its influence on healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). Through interactive sessions participants will have the possibility to discuss practical problems with leading experts in the field.

Venue

Continental Hotel
Vladimira Popovica 10
New Belgrade
Serbia

Target Audience

80 -100 participants from Serbia, Europe, Middle East and beyond. The organizing committee will accept applications from all clinical microbiologists, infectious disease physicians, especially trainees, ICU intensivists-anesthesiologists and surgeons who are interested in the study of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections, and/or who are (or intend to be) members of Hospital Infection Control Committees.

Registration Procedure

Please download the registration form (see link on the right) and return it to the course administrative secretariat by 17 January 2011.

Registration Fee

Fee before / after 17 January 2011:
EUR 180 / 240 ESCMID, SAPIC & SSICM members
EUR 210 / 280 all others

The fee includes  the scientific sessions, printed course material, lunches, coffee breaks and accommodation, but not travel.

Attendance Grants

ESCMID provides a number of attendance grants for young attendees (40 years or younger) covering the registration fee, but no travel costs. Please submit your application until 17 January 2011 online on this website (follow the link on the right). If there are more applicants than available grants, preference will be given to ESCMID members. Applicants will be informed about their acceptance by 31 January 2011.

Please note that attendance grant application does not include registration for the course. Please register separately with the form supplied on the right.

CME Accreditation

The organizer of the course will apply for European CME accreditation through EACCME.

Biljana Jovanovic
Clinical Center of Serbia
Department for hospital epidemiology
Pasterova 2
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

Phone + 381 11 3615 362
Fax + 381 11 2687 570

Biljana Jovanovic

Administrative Secretariat

Dejan Musić
Clinical Center of Serbia
Department for hospital epidemiology
Pasterova 2
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

Phone + 381 11 3615 362
Fax + 381 11 2687 570

Dejan Musić

Vesna Stevanović
Clinical Center of Serbia
Department for hospital epidemiology
Pasterova 2
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

Phone + 381 11 3615 362
Fax + 381 11 2687 570

Vesna Stevanović

• Antimicrobial use and bacterial resistance
• How to study the relationship between antimicrobial use and bacterial resistance
• Antimicrobial use in ICUs
• Basic principles of rational antimicrobial prescribing in the ICU
• Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery
• Basic principles of rational antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery
• When to use prophylaxis for MRSA in surgery
• Overview of antibiotic policies and interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing in hospitals (therapy and prophylaxis)
• Interventions to improve prescribing
• The influence of education on the consumption of antibiotics
• Improving antibiotic prescribing through educational interventions
• The gap between antimicrobial resistance and novel drug development
• Influence of socio-cultural components on outpatient antibiotic use
• ECDC’s successful actions to combat antimicrobial resistance

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• Vesna BumbaÅ¡irevic, Belgrade, RS
• Barry Cookson, London, UK
• Gorana Cosic, Novi Sad, RS
• Stephan Harbarth, Geneva, CH
• Slobodan Jankovic, Kragujevac, RS
• Biljana Jovanovic, Belgrade, RS
• Dominique Luis Monnet, Stockholm, SE
• Dilip Nathwani, Dundee, UK
• Dejan Radenkovic, Belgrade, RS
• Predrag Romic, Belgrade, RS
• Giorgio Zanetti, Lausanne, CH