Intravenous to Oral Switch - Within Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (IVOST) FutureLearn

Overview

The use of intravenous antimicrobials and complex oral antimicrobial regimes within outpatient clinical environments is helping with non-admission to and early discharge from hospital. The course will lead you through the principles underlying these therapies, how to determine their suitability, and key practices for prescribers.

Key facts:

Intravenous to Oral Switch - Within Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (IVOST) at British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy by FutureLearn  is for healthcare workers who prescribe and administer antibiotics. It explores the benefits and barriers of IVOST and complex oral antimicrobial therapy in the context of an OPAT service.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of intravenous compared to oral antibiotic therapy

• Describe the need for detailed patient assessment when switching from intravenous to oral therapy in the OPAT setting

• Describe the principles of switching patients from intravenous to oral antibiotic and the processes required to safely monitor therapy in the OPAT setting

• Explore the clinical complexity of monitoring complex oral parenteral antibiotic therapy in the outpatient setting (COPAT), the characteristics of antibiotics or antibiotic regimens that require enhanced outpatient monitoring and the key components