We are happy to announce that registrations are now open* for Penta‘s new interactive training programme – ‘PentaTr@ining: AMR Online Course’! This timely course brings together doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers linked through the...
We are pleased to have reached the two-thirds recruitment milestone with more than 750 children admitted to hospital with severe or very severe pneumonia, now recruited into the PediCAP trial. The last couple of years have been particularly challenging for our trial...
The PediCAP consortium is pleased to announce a major milestone. Site teams in Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa have successfully reached 50% recruitment of the PediCAP trial. Of the 1100 expected participants of children hospitalised with severe or very...
Authors: Wasmann RE , Svensson EM, Walker AS , Clements MN , Denti P
Presented at: WCoP 2022
We are pleased to announce that we have successfully passed our 25% recruitment milestone with more than 400 patients successfully randomised into their arms. The PediCAP trial will determine whether children hospitalised for severe or very severe pneumonia, do better...
The recent GRAM report on the global impact of antimicrobial resistance highlights the ongoing challenges to antibiotic stewardship. Considering global assessments of antibiotic use patterns, it is essential to note that children are likely to have an approximately three times higher consumption of antibiotics than adults in most settings, regardless of country income level
Published in Lancet Respir Med, 2019
The start of the PediCAP Project was officially launched with the kick-off meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 29-30 April 2019. All of the 13 European and African institutions and hospitals comprising the PediCAP Consortium, including the 5 recruiting...
