Webinar: Practical prescribing for respiratory infections
Dr Mark Thomas, an Infectious Diseases Physician with Auckland City Hospital talked about when to and when not to prescribe antibiotics, as well as recommended treatment regimes for common respiratory conditions seen in primary care, including pneumonia, acute bronchitis and the common cold.
Mark is Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, and a physician in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Auckland City Hospital. He is actively involved in research to encourage the wise use of antimicrobials and to reduce excessive antimicrobial consumption.
Monday, 03 April 2017
Practitioner Resources:
Resources updated August 2017
- Cochrane Review: Vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in adults.
- The New England Journal of Medicine article: Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine against Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Adults
- Heart Foundation: sore throat algorithm
- Goodfellow eLearning: Prescribing for common infections
- Goodfellow MedTalk: Respiratory infections in children
- BPAC: Antibiotics: choices for common infections (2017)
Patient Resources:
- Patient handout: The common_cold_leaflet_2017.pdf
- Health Navigator: Pneumonia
Presenter
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Mark is an infectious diseases physician with Auckland City Hospital. Click here to find out more. |
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