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A Global Declaration on Appropriate Use of Antimicrobial Agents across the Surgical Pathway

  • Massimo Sartelli
  • , Yoram Kluger
  • , Luca Ansaloni
  • , Jean Carlet
  • , Adrian Brink
  • , Timothy C. Hardcastle
  • , Ashish Khanna
  • , Alain Chicom-Mefire
  • , Jesús Rodríguez-Baño
  • , Dilip Nathwani
  • , Marc Mendelson
  • , Richard R. Watkins
  • , Celine Pulcini
  • , Bojana Beović
  • , Addison K. May
  • , Kamal M.F. Itani
  • , John E. Mazuski
  • , Donald E. Fry
  • , Federico Coccolini
  • , Kemal Rasxa
  • Philippe Montravers, Christian Eckmann, Lilian M. Abbo, Salisu Abubakar, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Abdulrashid Kayode Adesunkanmi, Majdi N. Al-Hasan, Asma A. Althani, Jorge Eduardo Alvarenga Ticas, Shamshul Ansari, Rashid Ansumana, André Ricardo Araujo Da Silva, Goran Augustin, Miklosh Bala, Zsolt J. Balogh, Oussema Baraket, Matteo Bassetti, Giovanni Bellanova, Marcelo A. Beltran, Ofir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Marja A. Boermeester, Stephen M. Brecher, Juan Bueno, Miguel A. Cainzos, Kelly Cairns, Adrian Camacho-Ortiz, Marco Ceresoli, Sujith J. Chandy, Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, Roberto Cirocchi, Elif Colak, Antonio Corcione, Oliver A. Cornely, Francesco Cortese, Yunfeng Cui, Daniel Curcio, Dimitris Damaskos, Koray Dasx, Samir Delibegovic, Zaza Demetrashvili, Belinda De Simone, Hamilton Petry De Souza, Jan De Waele, Sameer Dhingra, Jose J. Diaz, Isidoro Di Carlo, Francesco Di Marzo, Salomone Di Saverio, Agron Dogjani, Gereltuya Dorj, Laurent Dortet, Therese M. Duane, Herve Dupont, Valery N. Egiev, Hani O. Eid, Mutasim Elmangory, Hany El-Sayed Marei, Mushira Abdulaziz Enani, Kevin Escandón-Vargas, Mario P. Faro, Paula Ferrada, Domitilla Foghetti, Esteban Foianini, Gustavo P. Fraga, Sabrina Frattima, Chinmay Gandhi, Gianni Gattuso, Eleni Giamarellou, Wagih Ghnnam, George Gkiokas, Massimo Girardis, Debbie A. Goff, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Harumi Gomi, Rosio Isabel Guerra Gronerth, Xavier Guirao, Manuel Guzman-Blanco, Mainul Haque, Andreas Hecker, Markus Hell, Torsten Herzog, Lauri Hicks, Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch, Lillian S. Kao, Souha S. Kanj, Lewis J. Kaplan, Garima Kapoor, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Jeffry Kashuk, Jakub Kenig, Faryal Khamis, Vladimir Khokha, Ronald Kiguba, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Hartwig Kørner, Kaoru Koike, Kenneth Y.Y. Kok, Kateryna Kon, Victor Kong, Kenji Inaba, Orestis Ioannidis, Arda Isik, Katia Iskandar, Maurizio Labbate, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Katrien Lagrou, Leonel Lagunes, Rifat Latifi, Kostas Lasithiotakis, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Jae Gil Lee, Marc Leone, Ari Leppäniemi, Yousheng Li, Stephen Y. Liang, Kui Hin Liau, Andrey Litvin, Tonny Loho, Warren Lowman, Gustavo M. Machain, Ronald V. Maier, Ramiro Manzano-Nunez, Athanasios Marinis, Cristina Marmorale, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Sanjay Marwah, Emilio Maseda, Michael McFarlane, Renato Bessa De Melo, Maria Rita Melotti, Ziad Memish, Dominik Mertz, Cristian Mesina, Francesco Menichetti, Shyam Kumar Mishra, Giulia Montori, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore, Noel Naidoo, Lena Napolitano, Ionut Negoi, David P. Nicolau, Ioannis Nikolopoulos, Carl Erik Nord, Richard Ofori-Asenso, Iyiade Olaoye, Abdelkarim H. Omari, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Mouaqit Ouadii, Abdoul Salam Ouedraogo, Leonardo Pagani, José Artur Paiva, Jose Gustavo Parreira, Francesco Pata, Jorge Pereira, Nuno R. Pereira, Nicola Petrosillo, Edoardo Picetti, Tadeja Pintar, Alfredo Ponce-De-Leon, Zagorka Popovski, Garyphallia Poulakou, Jacobus Preller, Adrián Puello Guerrero, Guntars Pupelis, Martha Quiodettis, Timothy M. Rawson, Martin Reichert, Konrad Reinhart, Miran Rems, Jordi Rello, Sandro Rizoli, Jason Roberts, Ines Rubio-Perez, Etienne Ruppé, Boris Sakakushev, Ibrahima Sall, Hossein Samadi Kafil, James Sanders, Norio Sato, Robert G. Sawyer, Thomas Scalea, Rodolfo Scibé, Luigia Scudeller, Helmut Segovia Lohse, Gabriele Sganga, Nusrat Shafiq, Jay N. Shah, Patrizia Spigaglia, Shanoo Suroowan, Constantinos Tsioutis, Costi D. Sifri, Boonying Siribumrungwong, Michael Sugrue, Peep Talving, Boun Kim Tan, Antonio Tarasconi, Carlo Tascini, Jonathan Tilsed, Jean François Timsit, Mario Tumbarello, Ngo Tat Trung, Jan Ulrych, Selman Uranues, George Velmahos, András G. Vereczkei, Pierluigi Viale, Jordi Vila Estape, Claudio Viscoli, Florian Wagenlehner, Brian J. Wright, Yonghong Xiao, Kuo Ching Yuan, Sanoop K. Zachariah, Jean Ralph Zahar, Paulo Mergulhão, Fausto Catena
  • Macerata Hospital
  • Rambam Health Care Campus Israel
  • Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital
  • President of World Alliance Against Antibiotics Resistance
  • Milpark Hospital
  • University of Cape Town
  • Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • University of Buea
  • Universidad de Sevilla
  • University of Dundee
  • Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
  • Université de Lorraine
  • CHU de Nancy
  • University Medical Center Ljubljana
  • University of Ljubljana
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Boston University
  • Washington University St. Louis
  • Northwestern University
  • University of New Mexico
  • Anadolu Medical Center
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Hannover Medical School
  • University of Miami
  • Bayero University
  • United Arab Emirates University
  • Obafemi Awolowo University
  • University of South Carolina
  • Qatar University
  • Hospital Nacional Rosales
  • Oita University
  • Chitwan Medical College
  • University of Liverpool
  • Prontobaby Hospital da Criança
  • University of Zagreb
  • Hadassah University Medical Centre
  • University of Newcastle
  • Bizerte Hospital
  • Santa Maria Misericordia University Hospital
  • SS. Annunziata Hospital
  • Department of General Surgery
  • Queen's Medical Center Hawaii
  • Academic Medical Center
  • Fundacion Centro de Investigacion de Bioprospeccion y Biotecnologia de la Biodiversidad
  • Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago
  • Alfred Health
  • Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
  • Christian Medical College
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of Perugia
  • University of Health Sciences
  • Ospedale V. Monaldi
  • University of Cologne
  • San Filippo Neri Hospital
  • Tianjin Medical University
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
  • Numune Training and Research Hospital
  • University Clinical Center of Tuzla
  • Kipshidze Central University Hospital
  • Cannes Hospital
  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Ghent University
  • The University of the West Indies
  • R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
  • University of Catania
  • Versilia Hospital
  • Ospedale Maggiore
  • University Medical Center of Tirana "Mother Teresa"
  • Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences
  • Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
  • John Peter Smith Health System
  • Université de Picardie Jules Verne
  • Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
  • Abu Dhabi Health Services Company
  • Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan
  • King Fahad Medical City
  • Universidad del Valle
  • Fundação Universitaria do ABC, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Pesaro Hospital
  • Clinica Foianini
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Istituto Clinico San Rocco
  • Bharati Vidyapeeth University
  • Azienda Ospedaliera Carlo Poma
  • Athens General Hospital
  • Mansoura University
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  • Ohio State University
  • Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus
  • Mito Kyodo General Hospital
  • Peruvian Navy Medical Center
  • Hospital Universitari
  • Hospital Vargas de Caracas
  • National Defence University Malaysia
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Paracelsus Private Medical University
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Innsbruck Medical University
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • American University of Beirut
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Gandhi Medical College
  • University of Belgrade
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Jagiellonian University Medical College
  • Royal Hospital Oman
  • City Hospital
  • Makerere University
  • Foothills Medical Centre
  • Stavanger University Hospital
  • Kyoto University
  • The Brunei Cancer Centre
  • Kharkiv National Medical University
  • Edendale Hospital
  • Los Angeles County USC Medical Center
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Erzincan University
  • Lebanese International University
  • University of Technology Sydney
  • UNIVPM
  • KU Leuven
  • Hospital Central "Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto"
  • University of Arizona
  • NHS Foundation Trust
  • Economics and Policy
  • Yonsei University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • Helsinki University Central Hospital
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Mt Elizabeth Novena Hospital
  • National University of Singapore
  • Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
  • University of Indonesia
  • University of the Witwatersrand
  • Universidad Nacional de Asunción
  • University of Washington
  • Fundación Valle del Lili
  • Tzanion General Hospital
  • Marche Polytechnic University
  • St James’s Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • Hospital Universitario La Paz
  • Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João
  • University of Bologna
  • Ministry of Health
  • McMaster University
  • Emergency Hospital of Craiova
  • University Hospital of Pisa
  • Tribhuvan University
  • Denver Health
  • University of Florida
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal
  • Emergency Hospital of Bucharest
  • Center of Anti-Infective Research and Development
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Research Unit
  • University of Ilorin
  • King Abdullah University Hospital
  • Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Souro Sanou
  • Regional Hospital of Bolzano
  • University of Porto
  • Faculdade de Ciências Médicas Santa Casa de São Paulo
  • Sant'Antonio Abate Hospital
  • Centro Hospitalar Tondela Viseu
  • IRCCS Istituto per le Malattie Infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani - Roma
  • University of Parma
  • Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
  • Hamilton Health Sciences
  • London Health Sciences
  • University Hospitals
  • Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
  • Riga East University Hospital
  • Hospital Santo Tomas
  • Imperial College London
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Department of General Surgery
  • Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Queensland
  • Sorbonne Université
  • University Hospital St. George
  • Military Teaching Hospital
  • Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
  • John Peter Smith Hospital Fort Worth
  • Ehime University
  • Western Michigan University
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo - Pavia
  • Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS
  • Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
  • Patan Academy of Health Sciences
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanita
  • University of Mauritius
  • European University Cyprus
  • University of Virginia
  • Thammasat University
  • Letterkenny Hospital
  • North Estonia Medical Centre
  • Hôpital Saint-Joseph
  • Parma Maggiore Hospital
  • Azienda Ospedaliera D. Cotugno
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
  • Tran Hung Dao Hospital
  • Charles University
  • Medical University of Graz
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • University of Pecs
  • ISGlobal
  • Istituto Nazionale Per la Ricerca Sul Cancro
  • The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
  • MOSC Medical College Kolenchery
  • Université d'Angers

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Abstract

This declaration, signed by an interdisciplinary task force of 234 experts from 83 different countries with different backgrounds, highlights the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance and the need for appropriate use of antibiotic agents and antifungal agents in hospitals worldwide especially focusing on surgical infections. As such, it is our intent to raise awareness among healthcare workers and improve antimicrobial prescribing. To facilitate its dissemination, the declaration was translated in different languages.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)846-853
Number of pages8
JournalSurgical Infections
Volume18
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2017

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