MedPage Today Roundup
Trying out a new post type. I keep track of a few days of interesting links from MedPage Today emails (they have great summaries!) in a draft post and jot do...
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Antibiotics in Palliative Care
The issue comes up a lot lately on Stewardship rounds regarding antibiotics in palliative/”comfort-only” care. Often we see orders like “discontinue all med...
The History of Penicillin and a new QT Interaction
Just been catching up with Dr. Mark Crislip’s Puscast. Checked out a few of the references he linked to in the most recent one. Not really a reference I supp...
Antibiotic Use in Pregnancy - Update
Use of antibiotics during pregnancy and risk of spontaneous abortion - CMAJ
Easter Article Catchup
Been far too long since a post - here are some brief summaries of articles or posts that I found interesting.
Limiting Fluoroquinolone Use Linked to Less C Diff
Curbing Antibiotics Tied to Britain’s Drop in C. Diff
Notes from Canadian Pharmacists Letter - Jan 2017
new study suggesting all NSAIDs have equal risk when used in pts with CV disease only looked at celebrex 200mg total daily dose tradition...
New Evidence Regarding Zika and Microcephaly
Zika Virus RNA Replication and Persistence in Brain and Placental Tissue
Notes for IDWeek 2016 Day 4
7am on a Saturday in New Orleans. #hardcore
Notes for IDWeek 2016 Day 3
“Learning how the sausage was made”
Notes for IDWeek 2016 Day 2
Starting here at 7am today… here’s my live(ish) notes for the day.
Notes for IDWeek 2016 Day 1
These notes will be disorganized and may be riddled with typos…. typing in real time during talks on my wife’s iPAD. I will hit the upload button periodicall...
Once Weekly Ciprofloxacin for SBP Prophylaxis
We had a patient today whose med history showed ciprofloxacin 750mg PO weekly for chronic SBP prophylaxis. Given that the usual standard in guidelines is 500...
Prevention of C. Diff Recurrence with PO Vanco
I still have several months of new literature to catch up on and post about here, but these articles came across my desk from the most recent Clinical Infect...
Antifungals in UTI
Echinocandins - last but not yeast?
Interpretation of Urine Culture Colony Counts
Can you always ignore below-threshold CFU counts?