Video
In this session, Professor Alastair Hay will discuss antibiotic use, with key takeouts from his research which has led to a demonstrable change in NHS practice, including showing:
- How long common infections last.
- That using the two antipyretics, paracetamol and ibuprofen, is more effective than one for relieving fever in children.
- That a single course of antibiotics prescribed in primary care increases antibiotic resistance.
- Which symptoms, signs and dipstick results should be used to diagnose UTI in children?
- That oral steroids should not be used in acute lower respiratory tract infections in adults without asthma; and
- That anaesthetic ear drops can relieve pain and reduce antibiotic consumption in children with acute otitis media.
Presenter
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Alastair Hay
Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol
MB.ChB (Sheff), M.D.(Leic.), M.R.C.P., D.C.H.(RCP), M.R.C.G.P., D.F.F.P., F.H.E.A.
Born in Takapuna, Alastair has been a UK academic GP for 25 years and a leading primary care researcher at the University of Bristol into the diagnosis and management of common infections in primary care.