Infections

Antimicrobial prescribing guidelines and infection tools for clinicians. Infections is useful for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and anyone who needs antimicrobial prescribing guidance in their pocket.

Infections has been developed by the microbiology and infectious diseases teams at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK in collaboration with the technology company UBQO Limited.

The application makes it easy to access antimicrobial prescribing guidelines to treat a wide variety of common infectious diseases and prophylaxis guidelines for various procedures and conditions. Underpinning the application is our commitment to improving antimicrobial stewardship for our patients.

There are a vast number of clinical guidelines available in a number of different places which are not always easily accessible to prescribers. The application brings these together with a number of tools to ensure our patients get the right choice of antibiotic and the right dose whilst minimising the risk of side effects.

Looking up antibiotic prescribing guidelines can be time consuming and inconvenient. Infections will invaluable in helping clinicians quickly select the most appropriate agent and calculating the correct doses. There are options for penicillin allergic patients and advice about therapeutic drug monitoring too.

Infections allows users to access guidelines without the need for an internet connection.

Infections provides fast and convenient access to a wide range of clinical guidelines and infection tools. Rapid guidance for management of common infections at your fingertips.

Key features

• Access to both Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital specific guidelines
• Access to both empirical antimicrobial treatment and prophylaxis guidelines
• Key pointers for good antimicrobial stewardship
• Guidance for penicillin allergic patients
• Therapeutic drug monitoring information
• Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines
• Useful contacts (internal users only)

Acknowlegements

This application was developed by Dr Simon Goldenberg and Paul Wade at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Dakshika Jeyaratnam and Dr James Hinton at King’s College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We would like to thank Rajeni Thangarajah, Corrine Bryne and many others for their help.

The software and technology for Infections was designed, developed and managed by UBQO Limited http://www.ubqo.com

FREE

version 1.0.2.1

For iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch running iOS 6.0 or later.