The July issue of Pharmacotherapy is online at: buff.ly/2OJ01s6 ACCP Stephanie Flowers 🧢 Shubha Bhat, PharmD Abrar Thabit أبرار ثابت Sarah Jorgensen 🎶🎭🍁 Razi Kebriaei LDD @wsueacphs Michael Rybak Lusi Zhang

When you leave your career as a pharmacist to seek joy. #twitterRx

Everyone who's treating MRSA Bacteremia should read this article now! An excellent review by @VanceFowler5 et Al Clinical Infectious Diseases Persistent MRSA Bacteremia: Resetting the Clock for Optimal Management 🌟Excellent figures 🌟 SNAP Trial Thoughts 🤔 #IDTwitter academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…

Vancomycin is the oldest and most frequently used drug in our arsenal against MRSA Despite being used for almost 65 years, vancomycin resistance (MIC ≥ 16 μg/mL) is extraordinarily uncommon, with just 52 incidents of VRSA reported worldwide in the past two decades #IDTwitter

Mandatory antibiotic indication field is a starting point to support #antimicrobialstewardship in the outpatient setting

My husband Tom survived a #superbug infection yrs ago but like many, has several comorbidities. After >3yrs of avoiding #COVID, it hit him hard despite being vaxxed & getting #Paxlovid. He was hospitalized this wknd but is finally on the mend. #COVIDisNotMild #COVIDAwarenessWeek

Vaccination supports #antimicrobialstewardship COVID-19 vaccination associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing in long-term care IRR 0.7 (95%CI 0.4-1) and community residents IRR 0.3 (95%CI 0.3-0.4) Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa U of T Public Health ICES McMaster MPH Program Public Health ON

Fantastic review I was waiting for 🆕️🔥🔥 Clinical Microbiology and Infection Cornelia Landersdorfer @GweeAmanda Prof.Nation Clinical pharmacological considerations in an early IV to oral antibiotic switch:are barriers real or simply perceived? Rationale of switch in context of PKPD clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-…

Poster 625 at #SHEASpring2023: Do you have FOMO (fear of missing organisms)? If your patient with a diabetic foot infection has not had a culture with Pseudomonas in the past year, this has a negative predictive value of 94%. Hold on the pip-tazo!

An underrated reason to go from IV to Po antibiotics is nursing time required to prepare and administer them: 💊 PO 80 seconds 💉 IV 22 minutes According to @jabicjenkins this time in motion data will help to convince non-stewards to support this important initiative #ECCMID23

During Canada's shortage of children’s fever and pain medications, parents were guided to use weight-based divided doses of adult formulations. Our new NEJM study reports this was associated with increased paediatric dosing errors for Tylenol and Advil: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Important for providers particularly in GTHA to understand most of this area falls into a lyme endemic zone (along with pockets in SW ON, around Kingston, and Up north). Very different than years past with small endemic zones. publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docume…

94% of patients with a penicillin allergy who were testing were negative. Penicillin allergy testing should be a part of preoperative management. Should Penicillin Allergy Testing Be Included as Part of Preoperative Testing? - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37428901/

Drug-related hospital re-admission is common in older adults and many events are preventable. #Antibiotics are one of the top 3 drug classes implicated link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Post-hoc bias: a marginal improvement in symptoms tends to encourage patients/HCPs to continue treatment even when the change is coincidental. This can lead to continuing dubious and costly treatments, including unnecessary antibiotics: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… JAMA Network Open

Thank you Sabra Gibbens MD for your bravery in writing this - right where it belongs, in a peer-reviewed journal. These are strange times. An important and necessary perspective. André Picard @cmaj Eric Topol cmaj.ca/content/196/35…

Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs with designated funding & resources use less fluoroquinolones, anti-pseudomonal agents, and clindamycin 🆕 in ASHE Journal 📰doi.org/10.1017/ash.20… #antimicrobialstewardship

So: Measles can be a big deal, most recover but bad outcomes happen and it still kills people - mostly kids- every year. People may be blasé about this because the vaccine, which is safe, HAS worked well. For most, two doses and you are good (prior exposures matter) 10/10

🆕🔥Systematic Review and Noninferiority Meta-Analysis 🌟s Todd C. Lee Emily McDonald Seven vs Fourteen Days of Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection Brad Spellberg #IDXposts jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…