Things I do not care about when discussing UA's and urine cultures:
❌Pyuria/Leuk esterase +
❌Nitrites
❌Bacteria on microscopy
❌Growth of bacteria on cultures
Things I do care about:
✅SYMPTOMS
Everything else is just asymptomatic bacteriuria! #IDTwitter#MedTwitter
Penicillin allergy testing in pregnant patients led to increased penicillin for GBS ppx and 96.5% had neg oral challenge and 100% neg PST. Awesome resident project @kaylacgodfrey @DeannaMcdanel #IPAAnnualmeeting23
PharmConsult: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy programs are common for conditions that traditionally require weeks or months of parenteral treatment, by @KP_IDPHARM. https://t.co/7ZtAjBG0jL
Can we safely put a PAUSE on antibiotic prescribing for RTI? In the latest SIDP Journal Club Series release (https://t.co/gTtPZxZWAq), @KP_IDPHARM reviews a recent meta-analysis evaluating delayed abx prescribing vs immediate/no abx. Available for 1.5 hours of ACPE/BCIDP credit!
They’re here! 🎉 A shipment of about 1,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech #COVID19 vaccine arrived at our hospital this morning so we can begin vaccinating our employees most closely involved in providing COVID-19-related patient care today.
Indiscriminate use of ‘early’ antifungals in the ICU (or certainly, outside the ICU) is not warranted
At All
Reasonable populations 👇
@geschena#SIDP2020#IDTwitter
Such an important graphic from Dr. Lakesha Butler speaking on Structural rcism as the @SIDPharm#SIDP20202 keynote speaker. THANK YOU for bringing this talk to us!
Should we expand our interdisciplinary team for sepsis? #critcareIA
Early Infectious Disease Consultation Is Associated With Lower Mortality in Patients With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock Who Complete the 3-Hour Sepsis Treatment Bundle https://t.co/3kyEJzDKXh #critcareIA