How does your institution display renal function in your EMR? And importantly, which method do you use to assess renal function for the purpose of medication adjustment? Appreciate all responses!

Practice changing study, we always consider UTI in men as a complicated disease and we usually treat for longer time sometimes even more than 14 days, this study found that you can treat for shorter time ~7 days #IDTwitter #medtwitter #TwitteRx

🆕💥💥 MERINO-2 #OFID Meropenem versus piperacillin-tazobactam for definitive treatment of bloodstream infections caused by AmpC beta-lactamase producing Enterobacter spp., Citrobacter freundii, Morganella morganii, Providencia spp or Serratia marcescens academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

REMDACTA RCT 💥💥 is published Intensive Care Medicine Tocilizumab plus remdesivir did not shorten time to hospital discharge or “ready for discharge” to day 28 compared with placebo plus remdesivir in patients with severe #COVID19 pneumonia #IDTwitter #TwitteRx link.springer.com/article/10.100…

PSA: There are NO fetal cells in #COVID19Vaccines And if you object to taking things TESTED on fetal cells, that includes 💊Tylenol, Advil, aspirin, Aleve 💊Claritin, Benadryl, Sudafed 💊Tums, Maalox, Pepto-Bismol 💊Lipitor, Norvasc 💊ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir

this is really great work with Emily Heil leading a blockbuster team of infectious diseases clinician-researchers. this sets the foundation for a collaborative looking to answer many questions in the GNR BSI space--- excited for more to come!

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And for those who can't be bothered reading the whole thread, here are my #top10papers in ID for 2021 and their implications in 1 slide. #IDTwitter. Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 Antibiotic Tweets Erin McCreary Aurélien Dinh Daniel Engelman Paul Sax Nico Cortes-Penfield MD FACP FIDSA 🦴💊

What the heck, U.S. FDA . This makes an already difficult drug nightmarish. And based on no safety or efficacy data at all, or even a clear line of thought. fda.gov/drugs/drug-saf…

Vancomycin plus ceftaroline in MRSA bacteremia - safety and effectiveness published in Pharmacotherapy (cohort of ~30) Lead author Wes Kufel accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ph… #IDTwitter #TwitteRx

Question for ID colleagues 🦠 Pt with osteomyelitis, wound Cx positive for MSSA and Enterococcus faecalis. BCx remain negative. Would you be comfortable with piperacillin-tazobactam or ampicillin-sulbactam monotherapy? 🤔 #IDTwitter #TwitteRx

SIDP CDC's Project Firstline CDC Antimicrobial Resistance American Nurses Enterprise A7. Though we like our people and people power, we also collaborate with others such as from Jefferson College of Nursing @mpmaziarz with a paper Nikunj V and Dr. MaryLou Manning and others! #USAAW22 #AntimicrobialResistance pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34492325/

Print copies have arrived. Maureen Campion and I chose the colors. Pretty, right?

When using pip/tazo for peri-operative surgical prophylaxis what frequency does your institution recommend for re-dosing intra-op? All answers and comments are appreciated!

Tufts MC's Dr. Mary Hopkins explains how long germs can last on surfaces around your house and which ones to be concerned about: ow.ly/ETzP50Q9xGw #TuftsMedicine

It's Antibiotic Awareness Week, and Tufts Medicine's Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez is helping us #BeAntibioticsAware so we understand when antibiotics are needed and when they’re not. #USAAW23 #TuftsMedicine Tufts Medical Center ID Fellowship Levy CIMAR Helen Boucher