Infectious Disease Pharmacist dedicated to optimizing outcomes for patients and reducing antimicrobial resistance. My opinions are my own.
Boston, Ma
Joined June 2017
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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
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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_id @LevyCIMAR @hboucher3
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!
35%Q2H
59%Q4H
6%Q6H
0%Q8H
17 votes • Final results
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Vancomycin plus ceftaroline in MRSA bacteremia - safety and effectiveness published in @PharmacoJournal (cohort of ~30)
Lead author @WesKufel
accpjournals.onlinelibrary.w…
#IDTwitter #TwitteRx
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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
68%Yes
18%No
15%Depends, comment below👇🏻
906 votes • Final results Maureen Campion retweeted
A7. Though we like our people and people power, we also collaborate with others such as from @JeffCollegeNur @mpmaziarz with a paper @s3v3nthsinn and Dr. MaryLou Manning and others! #USAAW22 #AntimicrobialResistance pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3449…
Among your adult patients who have undergone splenectomy, in addition vaccination, do you prescribe/recommend an emergency supply of antibiotics or daily antibiotic prophylaxis? All responses appreciated! @ShiraDoronMD @mmPharmD @BradSpellberg @minkeyw
3%Life Long Daily ABX
36%Emergency supply (ES)
9%<3 yrs daily ABX + (ES)
52%Just want the answer
191 votes • Final results(2/3) among patients who have a history of sepsis due to encapsulated organisms or who remain immunocompromised.
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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. @ABsteward @khalideljaaly @ErinMcCreary @aurdinh @Dan_Engelman @PaulSaxMD @Cortes_Penfield
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a Christmas miracle
Yesssssss!!!! Zerbaxa is baaaaccccckkkk. Happy holidays to everyone in ID. Oh how we’ve missed you this past year #IDTwitter #medtwitter
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this is really great work with @emilylheil 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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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
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REMDACTA RCT 💥💥
is published @yourICM
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…
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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
🆕💥💥RCT @JAMA_current @Ddrekonja
Among afebrile men with UTI
Rx w ciprofloxacin or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for 7 days was noninferior to 14 days of with regard to resolution of UTI symptoms by 14 days after antibiotic #IDTwitter #Shorterisbetter jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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🆕💥💥 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/advanc…
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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!
56%CrCl by Cockroft-Gault
12%eGFR by MDRD or CKD-epi
32%Both
25 votes • Final results