I agree with what you've said. It is exhausting to be constantly nudging others to modify their treatment plans. It's exhausting to be the abx police. Some in our field have become apologists for being abx police. Not me. I wanna work with ya--but there is a higher calling.

You don't need any other stats.

Amazing to speak on #fungalutis at #BAUS2024 with Annie Joseph talking about #extendedculture and #MDTapproach. Thanks for the invite Hari Ratan, fab time speaking about our tricky fungal friends NUH_Micro 🍄 🍄‍🟫

★ Just published a new Communicable episode: The BLING-3 trial & continuous beta-lactam infusion: should these results change your practice? Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/01cde8a4 #IDTwitter #BLING3 Erin McCreary Joshua Davis David Paterson Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 ESCMID SCCM JAMA

Fantastic 🆕️🔥Review by SIDP 🌟 Christina König, PhD Pharmacotherapy Evolving resistance landscape in gram-negative pathogens: An update on β-lactam and β-lactam-inhibitor treatment combinations for carbapenem-resistant organisms Ignacio uman 🙏 #idxposts accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

So interesting. Genuinely wonder if every micro request had to be discussed and approved first, the reduction in testing would be of similar magnitude 🤔 Would just need to upsize our team ridiculously to do so!

I don’t consent to you using my fees for this legal defence against my union to protect my profession. I know you don’t care - I didn’t consent to you buying yourselves maccas shares and private healthcare with them either. But it feels important to say

Yesterday morning I got asked the real serious question of this election - Is the UK full?

Could listen to Hannah Fry all night. Clever girls rule.

Considering a career in Biomedical Science? 🧫 We currently have TWO Apprenticeship vacancies to join #teammicro, study at Nottingham Trent University over 4 years (Start Sept 2024) & become a registered Biomedical Scientist in Micro 🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧑🏻‍🔬🧬 Apply by 21st July👇 nuh.nhs.uk/jobs/#!/job/UK…

Yes! "So, go ahead and enjoy women's sports like you would any other sports, because they are sports." - Venus Williams "Except you, Harrison Butker. We don't need you." - Serena Williams "At all. Like, ever." - Quinta Brunson h/t The Cosmic Surfer- Antifa Left Coast ORCA Command

Landmark study for antimicrobial stewardship in Lancet Resp Med today. Large RCT in UK general practice of adults with respiratory illness found that nasal sprays (saline or gel-based) were associated with shorter duration of symptoms and at least 30% ⬇️ in antibiotics

Anyone know anywhere in the UK that can do plasmid typing, to assist in an NDM outbreak scenario?? No UK Health Security Agency service available for this so I'm told! Please share!

NIHR-funded DURATION UTI is looking for new sites to find the best antibiotic treatment duration for pyelonephritis. If you work in SAM Online in the NHS and think your hospital could recruit >4 participants per month please get in touch! phctrials.ox.ac.uk/studies/durati…

🆕️⚡️⚡️#IJAA Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk Following Different Antibiotics: Insights from Multi-source Medical Data Cefepime and imipenem exhibit more CDIs compared to piperacillin/tazobactam. #idxposts sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

man. what is the point theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Vaginal #Lactobacillus fatty acid response reveals a metabolite-targeted strategy for bacterial vaginosis treatment. •OA enhances growth of health-associated vaginal lactobacilli •Lactobacillus OA response genes are active in human vaginal #microbiome cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Fantastic insights from our very own Sue on the role of nurses in Diagnostic Stewardship, published in IPIP journal 👏🏼👏🏼 NUH_Micro NUH Infection prevention control team 💙 Nottingham University Hospitals Diagnostic stewardship: establishing the role of the hospital nurse to... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thought of the day: “Lean, efficient and vulnerable”. Jack Watling We need to balance Lean Processing & Efficiency with stability of service. Being too lean & too efficient adds risk to service delivery BBC Radio 4 The Briefing Room David Aaronovitch

🔊Antimicrobial Stewardship pharmacists & teams in NHS hospitals... 🔊 Does your AMS team have access to a budget to support delivery (aside from staff time) e.g. resources, accreditation, WAAW materials, comms costs etc? Interested to know... pls comment/DM me 🤔