Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) allows for medically stable patients to be discharged (or avoid admission completely) who require a course of intravenous antimicrobial agents. OPAT is a vital scheme that can prevent hospital admissions, reduce a patient’s length of stay in hospital through early discharge, plus reduce the risk of hospital acquired infections.

TOPICS COVERED TO INCLUDE

• BSAC OPAT Initiative – where are we now?
• Outcomes from OPAT referrals
• Experience of Elastomeric Devices and a Patient Perspective of Self-OPAT
• OPAT and the DAU (Direct Assessment Unit)
• Expansion to OPAT – Self-OPAT and complex orals
• The Role of the Podiatrist in OPAT: Experience Across Two Sites

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

All HCPs

SPEAKERS

• Eileen Dorgan, Consultant Microbiologist, Antrim Hospital, Northern Health and Social Care Trust
• Mark Gilchrist, Consultant Pharmacist Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Peter Nelson, Consultant Microbiologist South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
• Sara Hedderwick, Infection Doctor Southern Health and Social Care Trust
• Julie Hale, Lead OPAT Nurse and Leeanne Stewart OPAT Pharmacist Belfast HSCT
• Damian Duffy, Specialty Doctor Acute Medicine Northern Trust
• Louise McCorry ID Consultant Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
• Jane McCoy and Jane Beggs, Podiatrists Northern Health and Social Care Trust
• Aimee McGreal Bellone, Infection Doctor, Beaumont Hospital
• Peter McKee, Lead OPAT Pharmacist Southern Health and Social Care Trust

For more information, please contact: [email protected]