Publications by authors named "Annamaria Marata"
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- The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) focuses on prioritizing medicines that are crucial for global public health, particularly in the context of antibiotic use and resistance.
- In response to the rise of antimicrobial resistance, the EML introduced a new classification system called AWaRe, which categorizes antibiotics into Access, Watch, and Reserve groups to guide appropriate usage.
- The 2023 AWaRe classification includes 41 essential antibiotics and aims to enhance global antibiotic prescribing practices, promoting the use of Access antibiotics to optimize treatment and reduce misuse to prolong the effectiveness of these medications.
Background: Pneumonia is the most frequent complication of COVID-19, due to an aberrant host immune response that is associated with an acute respiratory distress syndrome, and, in most critical patients, with a "cytokine storm". IL-6 might play a key role in the cytokine storm and might be a potential target to treat severe and critical COVID-19. Tocilizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody, directed against IL-6 receptor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe minimally invasive pain surgical procedures are more and more frequently used in the treatment and management of the chronic pain. The patients will often have recourse to a higher infection's risk during the proceedings for acquired general conditions (like enterotomy, skin ulcers, bladder catheter).The analysis literature doesn't produce specific treatment guidelines about antibiotic prophylaxis in pain therapy.
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