we need all healthcare leaders and personnel to act now to help stop cre. it’s critical for doctors to prescribe existing antibiotics very carefully in order to preserve these lifesaving drugs for as long as possible. otherwise cre could very well be the beginning of the end of antibiotics. other prevention steps include: • knowing if patients in your facility have cre o requesting immediate alerts when the lab identifies cre o alerting the receiving facility when a cre patient transfers and find out when a patient with cre transfers into your facility • protecting patients from cre o following contact precautions and hand hygiene recommendations when treating patients with cre o dedicating rooms and staff to cre patients whenever possible o prescribing antibiotics carefully o removing temporary medical devices such as catheters and ventilators as soon as possible cdc offers other cre prevention guidelines that have proven to reduce cre infections.
what can my doctor do to help stop the spread of cre infections?