Infectious Diseases
Hospital-based Medicine
Epidemiology & Health Services Pathway
Children with Chronic Conditions
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Health Services Research
General Pediatrics
Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Critical Care
Clinical Research Pathway
Rana Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE
Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Infectous Diseases
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Matthew Kronman, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Antibiotic use in hospitalized children is now closely scrutinized by antibiotic stewardship programs. This session will involve 3 debates on hot topics relating to how antibiotic use should be managed for hospitalized children, including whether antibiotic use for non-infectious conditions (such as to promote gastric motility) should be regulated and reduced; whether early transition to oral antibiotic therapy for infections in hospitalized children is safe and effective; and whether other diagnostic tests – biomarkers like CRP or procalcitonin – should be used to guide antibiotic therapy in our patients. During this session, national leaders in Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, and Critical Care Medicine will debate these topics. The format will involve three 30 minute debates, in which each speaker will review the scientific evidence for her/his position for 8-10 minutes (maximum 20 minutes total), each speaker will have a chance to respond to the other speaker for 2 minutes (4 minutes total), and in which audience participation will be garnered through live polling and questions will be allowed (remaining 6-10 minutes total). The presentation of the initial position could be pre-recorded, while the rebuttals and Q&A section would be live. The overarching goal of the session is to highlight the evidence for and against the antibiotic management strategies covered for these common situations in hospitalized children, and to provide a fun and interactive session reaching a broad multidisciplinary audience.
This engaging session will therefore be relevant to those who care for hospitalized children, including medical student and resident trainees, general pediatricians, hospitalists, and specialists in emergency medicine, gastroenterology, and infectious diseases.
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