Antimicrobial Stewardship

Chief: Professor Federico Gobbi

The SANE Unit deals with:

Developing guidelines for a shared and as much as possible uniform management of patients affected by infectious diseases.
Fostering a rational use of the antibiotic therapy.
Reducing the incidence and fight spread of nosocomial infections and antibiotic-resistant germs.
To achieve these aims the SANE Unit assures a precise and constant (generally the same day) coverage of infectivological consultancy requests from all the Hospital departments, in particular from the Intensive Care Unit which holds daily briefings. The SANE Unit favors the constitution of an operative group composed by personnel of Medical Direction, Pharmacy, Microbiology and Computer Services that collaborate with the Hospital Infection Committee (CIO).
In order to reduce the intervention time in suspect cases of sepsis, the SANE Unit monitors in real time all hemocultures in collaboration with the Microbiology Unit.
Furthermore the SANE Unit fosters various multi-disciplinary teams: the team of orthopaedic infections for diagnosis, management and prevention of prosthetic infections (in collaboration with the Orthopaedic Unit); the endocarditis team for diagnosis, management and prevention of endocarditis (in collaboration with the Cardiology, General Medicine, Geriatric, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Units).