Join us online for our General Practitioner Grand Rounds in partnership with St George Hospital.

A penicillin allergy label leads to worse outcomes from infections and higher rates of resistant organisms. However, antibiotic allergy labels are often incorrect with 9 out of 10 patients reporting a penicillin allergy not actually being allergic on further testing.   

The topics covered will include current updates on the assessment, documentation and management of antibiotic allergies, and pathways we implement to de-label patients from their antibiotic allergies and improve antibiotic use. 

It will be delivered by an Infectious Diseases physician and lead of the antibiotic allergy service at St George Hospital. 

Presented by Dr Richard Sullivan – Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases SES STG Aged & Integrated Care 

Learning outcomes:

• Outline the classifications of antibiotic adverse drug reactions and allergies
• Describe how to assess and document antibiotic allergies to optimise antibiotic use
• Determine risk classification of antibiotic allergy labels, cross-reactivity patterns and how this helps with antibiotic choice
• Describe how antibiotic allergies are further assessed and managed in hospital inpatients and in a specialist clinic 

CESPHN and the St George Hospital Integrated Care Chronic Disease Working Party bring you a monthly Grand Round series as part of the St George Hospital education program for GPs. The Integrating Care Education program is an opportunity for hospital based specialists and their respective primary care specialists to meet in a forum to discuss the care of their patients.

Target audience: GPs, nurses and AHPs