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Infection Learning Resources
This webpage has been set up to provide a virtual learning resource for healthcare students and professionals.
The page features our 'One Minute Micro' videos, Bugs and Drugs sections, lecture slides, national guidance documents, games such as Antibiotic Trumps and Bug Bingo and a list of useful external resources. Scroll down to see all the resources.
See also the Bug's Life podcast page!
'One Minute Micro'
Very short revision videos on common topics in clinical microbiology, and infection, available from our YouTube Channel here or by clicking on the buttons:
Gram stains
Staphylococci
Streptococci
Bowel sepsis
UTI
Meningitis
Respiratory pathogens
Top Tips for Urines
Antibiotics
You can download many Trust/Health Board's antibiotic policies on an app such as Eolas onto your phone (find it in your app store and select your Trust/Health Board).
To choose antibiotics rationally, you need to answer three questions about your patient:
What is the likely source of infection?
(Clinical assessment)
Which pathogens are likely to cause infection at that site?
(Bugs - knowledge of basic clinical microbiology)
Which antibiotics are likely to cover those pathogens?
(Drugs - knowledge of antibiotic spectra)
This means a basic knowledge of clinical microbiology is key to understanding antibiotic prescribing
Bugs, Drugs and Resources
Bugs &
Antibiotic Top Trumps Game
Antibiotic Spectra made simple
Drugs
This table is a way to help you remember the antibiotic spectra of some commonly used antibiotics
Print out this set of Antibiotic Top Trumps to help you learn about some common antibiotics
The Drugs crib-sheet is about antibiotic spectra and designed to be read after the Bugs crib-sheet.
Presentations
UTI
Pocket Guide to Antibiotic Spectra
A useful quick reference guide to some commonly used antibiotic spectra, developed in conjunction with colleagues at Cwm Taf University Health Board. Useful as a pocket guide.
Respiratory
British Thoracic Society guidelines for community acquired pneumonia and NICE guidance for cough/acute bronchitis
Presentations
Presentations
Introduction to common pathogens and antibiotic spectra
Infection Prevention & Control
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Introduction to important pathogens
Clinical Apprenticeship Presentation (includes antibiotic wheel)
Gastrointestinal infections by Dr Lorcan O'Connell
Antibiotic resistance and stewardship
Complex infections (Biomaterials)
Prosthetic Joint Infection IDSA Guidance
Neurological infections
Neurological infection lectures from SUMS GEM & PA course. Images have been removed from some presentations.
British Infection Association Meningitis Guidance
Other Infections of the Central Nervous System GEM
Sepsis
The Sepsis Trust website has a range of educational resources including videos and a free dowloadable manual here
Parasitology
Bug Bingo Game
Bingo! The 'caller' has the question sheet, everyone else has the bingo grid. Shout 'penicillin' when you complete a row!
External Resources
Some other useful external resources
Immunisation
The UK 'Green Book' brings together all documents relating to immunisation against infectious diseases. It is a very useful source of information on all vaccine preventable disease including influenza, for GEM influenza week
Resource generated by Cwm Taf UHB to assist with safe prescribing of fluoroquinolones
For students, by students.
Use the contact page if you have a resource you think would be useful for your peers
Questions and Feedback
If you are one of my students with questions about these topics - please contact me and I will do my best to respond as soon as I can.
I would also welcome all feedback, or suggestions for what you'd like to see here - even if it is only to say you have used the page or one of the resources so I can know whether students are accessing it. Thank you!