🆕 Episode of #Breakpoints! 🫁
Curious about controversies in the management of HAP/VAP? Let’s clear the air!
Check out this infographic from @littlebugdrug and @moore_wjustin and listen along as Drs. @dblake096, @owenralb, and Ryan Rivosecchi join @ErinMcCreary to discuss!
⚠️ BREAKING:
Peru 🇵🇪 reports more than 130,000 cases and 200 deaths during its record-breaking dengue fever outbreak.
18 out of Peru's 24 regions are in a two-month state of Emergency. The upcoming El Niño could further worsen the situation with heavy rainfall as a result.
A multifaceted #AntibioticStewardship initiative to decrease inappropriate prescribing was linked with reduced antibiotic use in urgent care respiratory conditions at a large, integrated healthcare network. https://t.co/O5CXX7UY8A @E_Stenehjem
🆕️⚡️⚡️Retrospective, single-center, quasi-experimental study @OFIDJournal
Clindamycin plus Vancomycin versus Linezolid for Treatment of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
Cc @JonathanRyderMD@Cortes_Penfield https://t.co/HlR7NcXq9Y
An article I was waiting for!
🆕⚡⚡ @CIDJournal@Cortes_Penfield@JonathanRyderMD
Should Linezolid Replace Clindamycin as the Adjunctive Antimicrobial of Choice in Group A Streptococcal Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection & Toxic Shock Syndrome? #IDtwitter
https://t.co/hDBflIPAwb
Let me guess - failed 2 rounds of oral antibiotics, now admitted for IV antibiotics for ‘persistent cellulitis’? Nope, it’s ✨venous stasis✨, no antibiotics 💊 needed! Elevation, compression, exercise, skin/wound care.