Approach to Antibiotics & Antibiotics Stewardship (Exp)

Course Summary

Credits:

1 CME

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Cost:

Lecture

$30

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Frank Illuzzi, MD, FACEP

Former Chief Medical Officer - CityMD Urgent Care

Dr. Frank Illuzzi is a practicing board-certified Physician in Emergency Medicine, and is currently the Chief Medical Officer at CityMD, a regional urgent care group with 120 locations throughout the New York City metro area.

Prior to joining CityMD, Dr. Illuzzi was the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT, and held an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Frank Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. During his tenure in hospital based care he served in numerous clinical, academic, and leadership roles.

Dr. Illuzzi has published articles and textbook chapters in his various areas of academic interest, with his current focus on population health issues, specifically Public Health Screenings such as Tobacco cessation intervention, Hypertension awareness, Pediatric asthma, and Diabetes screening in alternative settings like the ER and the Urgent Care clinic.

He is also a sought after lecturer for national medical conferences on topics that include: Quality and Patient Safety, Antibiotic Stewardship, Physician Leadership, Patient Throughput and Workflow, and Delivering on the Patient Experience.

Dr. Illuzzi was born in Brooklyn, NY. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Long Island Jewish/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he received the honor of Chief Resident. He completed a fellowship with AHA/NPSF in Patient Safety Leadership in 2009.

Dr. Illuzzi currently resides in Fairfield, CT, with his lovely wife, Laura, and two beautiful daughters, Julia and Cecilia. His interests include jazz music, gardening, fishing, and glass-blowing.

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Doc, I want a Z-Pack! How many times have we heard this? As clinicians, we want to make our patients happy but we also know we cant indiscriminately prescribe antibiotics. With growing antibiotic resistance and the CDC looking closer at this issue, what do you do? Learn from our Urgent Care Master Clinicians Mentor about appropriate indications to antibiotics, what to say to patient, keeping antibiotic stewardship while maintaining high patient experience.

Topics Covered in the

Lecture

Antibiotics Resistance is Growing!

The majority of the causes for URI, bronchitis and pharyngitis are viral. Recent studies shows that Urgent Care Clinicians overprescribed antibiotics for a majority of these cases. Furthermore, the wrong antibiotics are often prescribed for the wrong diagnosis. When we try to push back against patients demand for inappropriate use of antibiotic, our patient experience scores drop.

So what do we do?

Dr. Frank Illuzzi is part of the CDC Action Committee on Antibiotic Stewardship and shares his insight on what to do in these various case scenarios how some clinicians who can achieve high patient experience score and still prescribe appropriately.

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, the learner will be able to:

Understand current evidence based recommendations for treatment of common inflammation/infection involving the upper respiratory tract and HEENT system
Learn skills and tips on properly educating the patient on above yet practice evidence based medicine and achieve higher patient satisfaction.

**Please note that this lecture is also part of the Urgent Care Conference On-Demand course**

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