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“Antibiotics for surgery are like condoms for sex: only good just before and during the act.” -Andrew Morris, M.D. ID specialist
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November 27, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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“Let the carbapenems flow & the steno shall grow.” #IDquotes
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absteward.bsky.social Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · Dec 3
Nudge, nudge!
🆕🔥 #ICHEJournal
Say it ain’t Steno: a microbiology nudge comment leads to less treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia respiratory colonization
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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“Antibiotics are among the most potent psychoactive drugs in all the pharmacopoeia. They are incredibly potent anxiolytics.They just act on the prescriber rather than the patient” -Dr. Brad Spellberg @bradspellberg.bsky.social
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May 14, 2026 at 5:35 AM
absteward.bsky.social
"The best antibiotics are a scalpel and a drainage needle. Don’t try to replace a surgeon or interventional radiologist with an antibiotic Andrew Morris, M.D #IDquotes #idsky
May 13, 2026 at 4:36 AM
absteward.bsky.social
"If you’re going to give antibiotics to patients who don’t need them, at least do the courtesy of giving them for a brief period of time." @bradspellberg.bsky.social #IDQuotes 🌟 #IDSky #shorterisbetter
May 19, 2026 at 4:22 AM
absteward.bsky.social
"Drug fever, the most ironic of which are antibiotic drug fevers, which cause the unfortunate tautology of the team insisting on continuing the antibiotic to treat the fever caused by the antibiotic"
@bradspellberg.bsky.social
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absteward.bsky.social Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · Dec 4
Fever is a major driver of antibiotics prescription
Fever isn't always an indication to start antibiotics
Fever isn't always a reason to get cultures from everywhere
When a patient has a fever,slow down,think twice
There are many non infectious causes of fever, can u mention one? #idsky #medsky
December 8, 2024 at 8:23 PM
absteward.bsky.social
"If you’re going to give antibiotics to patients who don’t need them, at least do the courtesy of giving them for a brief period of time." #IDQuotes @bradspellberg.bsky.social
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December 2, 2024 at 7:28 PM
absteward.bsky.social
🌟"Today’s teaching point may end up as tomorrow’s myth." 🌟
Dr.Erin McCreary article 👇
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academic.oup.com/cid/article/...
Antibiotic Myths for the Infectious Diseases Clinician
November 29, 2024 at 9:06 AM
absteward.bsky.social
“Antibiotics are among the most potent psychoactive drugs in all the pharmacopoeia. They are incredibly potent anxiolytics.They just act on the prescriber rather than the patient" Dr.Spellberg #idsky #idquotes #WAAW #WAAW24
November 19, 2024 at 4:28 PM
absteward.bsky.social
"Empyema needs a surgeon and 3 inches of cold steel, instead of a fool of a physician.” , Sir William Osler (1849–1919) #idsky #idquotes
May 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM
absteward.bsky.social
"Had CRP allowed a shortening of duration of therapy compared to standard then I would be the first person to climb the mountain top and shout to the world to order the test" @bradspellberg.bsky.social #idquotes #idsky #medsky #EMIMCC #CRAP #Zombietest
absteward.bsky.social Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · Dec 10
🔥The ADAPT-Sepsis RCT🔥
Daily PCT-guided protocol 🔽 total antibiotic duration & had noninferior all-cause mortality compared with standard care.
No difference was found in total Abx duration between standard care & daily CRP-guided protocol
CRP failure #idsky #EMIMCC
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Biomarker-Guided Antibiotic Duration for Patients With Suspected Sepsis
This clinical trial assessed whether treatment protocols for monitoring C-reactive protein or procalcitonin safely reduced the amount of time critically ill adults with suspected sepsis received antib...
jamanetwork.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:25 PM
absteward.bsky.social
"Change is scary, and medicine is a conservative profession. The core ethos of our profession is based on an oath that is 3 millennia old"
"We must overcome inertia and tradition & change practice when compelling evidence becomes available" @bradspellberg.bsky.social
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December 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
absteward.bsky.social
"There is no end to our struggle with bacteria;we will never "win a war" against them,and no "gorilla-cillin" will ever come along to save us from emergence of antibiotic resistance. Resistance is inevitable."
Dr.Spellberg Oct 2016
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November 28, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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"Perhaps it is ego or insecurity that prevents the words, “We don’t know, it’s a bit complicated,” from leaving doctors’ lips and landing in the ears of medical students or the wider public."
Liyang Pan #IDQuotes #idsky #medsky
blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/10/...
Liyang Pan: Medical education—the tyranny of guidelines and the single best answer - The BMJ
Simplification has a place in medical education, says Liyang Pan, but shouldn’t be at the cost of teaching students about medicine’s complexity After years of running the gauntlet of exams, [...]More....
blogs.bmj.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:33 PM