Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist & ID PGY2 Residency Director @uabmedicine | #WarEagle | Views my own
Alabama, USA
Joined October 2015
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What’s scarier than a misdiagnosed UTI?
Happy Halloween Stewards & Ghouls! 🎃
#stewardship
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Hence my Antibiotic Stewardship for the 21st Century Lecture: slides
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🆕🔥Mind blowing!
Among 6.3 million adults admitted to 241 US hospitals
50% of all anti-MRSA & antipseudomonal β-lactam prescribing was for suspected community onset sepsis but only 9.5% of pts treated with broad-spectrum Abx had (+) cx for MRSA,PSA or MDR
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Registration is now open for the 4th Annual ALIDS Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference‼️ Sign-up today for #ALIDS2024 🤩🧫💊
📍 The Valley Hotel, Homewood, AL
📆 Saturday, July 20
⏰ 8 AM - 3 PM CST
📚 FREE CE
🔗 aub.ethosce.com/content/alab…
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That article annoyed me so much I made a video.
Hi, @BBC if you want help reporting on UTIs in women I am happy to help.
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Dr. Anel Couzo representing @UABPharmRes with her data on “Identifying institution specific risk factors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa & MRSA pneumonia” at #MADID2024
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Mark your calendars for ALIDS Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference 🎉
📆 Saturday, July 20
⏰ 8 AM - 3 PM
📍 Homewood, AL
📚 4 hours of FREE CE
A big thanks to @MAD_ID_ASP for co-promoting this event for us. Be sure to register for their meeting at mad-id.org/annualmeeting/reg…
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👏🏽 Very proud of our ID fellow, Dr. Jensie Burton, for presenting her ASP rotation project on S. pneumo Ag and its utility locally and at @SHEA_Epi . Bottom line: 🚮 it, save $$$ 👏🏽
@ID_MUSC @MUSCPharmRes @MUSC_COM @MUSChealth @MUSChealth @RachB_PharmD
So excited to continue working with @ID_JD_PharmD next year! Let’s get after it! 🧫🦠💊📉📊
🌟And now a welcome to our Class of PGY2 residents!🌟🌟Beginning with PGY2 Infectious Diseases, our own J.D. Olivet!🎆 @ID_JD_PharmD @UABPharmRes @SamfordPharmacy
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❤️ Happy Valentines Day #IDtwitter #IDxPosts
Our friends still don’t know what we do
Bless our Gram-stained hearts
PK/PD Queens and Kings
Of all the moving parts
Bugs and drugs and MICs
Negotiating, planting seeds
In vitro wants, in vivo dreams
Grace our Gram-stained hearts
Interactions, ADRs
Combing notes and checking MARs
Delabeling allergies (au revoir!)
Delights the Gram-stained heart
Relearning that which we were taught
Data diving, answers sought
Framing unrequested thoughts
And baring Gram-stained hearts
Working with Doctors, APPs
Nurses and Lab – our Phamily
Case management, Micro, ICP!
Makes strong our Gram-stained hearts
We bring to bear all that we know
Waging wars on tiny foes
To aid a cure, to heal, and so
Sustain our Gram-stained hearts
@ShorterSeddonRx credit 🤓
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New study concluded use of #ModelInformedPrecisionDosing & single-concentration monitoring improved overall outcomes among patients receiving AUC-guided #vancomycin for culture-proven gram-positive infections compared to trough-guided therapy: bit.ly/4aRGPRG @UABMedicine
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Guidelines from @acog continue to recommend amp/gent+/-clinda for intraamniotic infections. This observational study in @CIDJournal strongly suggests that cefoxitin would be just as good -- and maybe better. Time for a guidelines change? @julie_justo doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciae042
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In @OFIDJournal, Nicole Hall, PharmD, and colleagues evaluated the safety and efficacy of AUC-guided vancomycin therapy using MIPD and single-concentration monitoring.
Read: idsajournals.link/PyNK9R
Incredibly proud of @NicoleHPharmD for the hard work put into this project! Getting here was a huge team effort, and so many advantages of the vancomycin dosing and monitoring strategy described are becoming more and more evident. 👏👏 academic.oup.com/ofid/advanc…
✅ Improved safety (⬇️ AKI)
✅ Prompt, individualized treatment
✅ Throughput (⬇️ ICU/hospital LOS)
✅ Simpler operations (pharmacy, nursing, lab)
✅ Better patient satisfaction (not directly assessed, but >1/3 vanc levels did not require an extra blood draw)
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Honored to be part of the team that helped make all this possible for our patients and institution. Still much work to do to 📉 unnecessary vancomycin use…but improved safety is reassuring, when use is indicated or not. @SEdwardsPharmD @NicoleHPharmD @UABPharmRes @UAB_ID
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🆕️⚡️AUC-guided vancomycin therapy via model-informed precision dosing using pre-steady state,single-concentration monitoring improved outcomes in in patients with culture-proven Gram (+) infections compared to trough-guided therapy using a DOOR analysis academic.oup.com/ofid/articl…
