Matilde Vernaccini

Project Title: Applicazione di procedure di Antimicrobial Stewardship nell’unità di pronto soccorso e terapia intensiva (PSeTI) dell’Ospedale Didattico Veterinario (ODV) del Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie (DSV) di Pisa

Abstract: Antimicrobial Stewardship encompasses a set of programs aimed at monitoring and guiding the responsible use of antimicrobials in veterinary settings. Its goals include promoting the prudent use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine, reducing the selection and spread of antimicrobial resistance, preventing infections, and improving both staff training and hygiene practices within facilities. For these reasons, the main objectives of this research project are to implement Antimicrobial Stewardship procedures in the veterinary hospital, monitor antibiotic use in the Emergency and Intensive Care Unit, assess the use of critically important antibiotics (HPCIAs) as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), evaluate the appropriateness of antibiotic therapy, and finally assess the implementation of AMS at the European level.

Oral presentations at conferences:

76° Conference SISVET 2023

Oral communications as supervisor:

• “Antimicrobial prescriptions in non-critical and intensive care unit cats at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Pisa, Italy”. Vernaccini M., Bacci S., De Marchi L., Briganti A., Lippi I., Marchetti V., Intorre L., Meucci V.

Oral communications as co-author

• “Antimicrobial use in cats visited in emergency rooms and hospitalized at the Veterinary Teaching Hospitals of the University of Pisa and Parma”. De Marchi L., Bacci S., Bertini S., Corsini A., Fidanzio F., Intorre L., Meucci V., Quintavalla C., Rega M., Vernaccini M., Crosara S.
• “Pattern of prescriptions and prudent use of antimicrobials in horse practice for the treatment of skin, respiratory, and ophthalmic diseases at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Pisa, Italy”. Bacci S., Meucci V., Sgorbini M., De Marchi L., Vernaccini M., Intorre L.

Poster at conference

21° EVECC Conference 2024

• “Feline urethral obstruction secondary to a foreign body”. Vernaccini M., Di Franco C., Briganti A., Puccinelli C., Lippi I.