Sepsis Perspective

• De-escalating Antibiotics: A Nudge in the Right Direction To encourage de-escalation of vancomycin, a unique behavioral "nudge" aims to change provider prescribing behavior.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), October 2018
• Time Out! A Close Look at Antibiotic Use in LTC Clinical cases illustrate the overuse of antibiotics to treat radiographic findings and lab reports, especially when prescribing over the phone.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 2018
• A New Reason to Be Wary of SGLT2s   Exceedingly serious adverse events in patients taking these hypoglycemic agents have been reported. Which are the culprit drugs?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, September 2018
• Multidrug-Resistant Infections: What's on the Horizon? As resistance develops to 'last-line' antimicrobials, what's next in the treatment of serious bacterial infections?
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), July 2018
• Treating Alcoholic Liver Diseases Dr Rowen Zetterman on how promoting early alcohol abstinence, looking for comorbidities, and implementing other techniques may keep a bad situation from getting worse.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, July 2018
• From Medical Malpractice to Murder Accusations; More Strange case takes an even stranger twist; why are million-dollar verdicts less common here?; patient's widow sues medical center.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 2018
• Does Tort Reform Affect Patient Care?; More The role of tort reform in patient care; grieving parents reach settlement with VA; medical malpractice boundary set in case involving deaf student; quadruple amputee argues to exceed state damages cap.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 2018
• New Help for Managing Clostridium difficile Infection   New guidelines from IDSA/SHEA highlight best practices for treating C difficile infection. Dr David Johnson provides insight for all providers who must be cognizant of this widespread problem.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 2018
• A Round-Up of Seven New Neurology Studies   Dr Diener reports on a wide range of studies in neurology and critical care medicine published in February and March, 2018.
  Medscape Neurology, April 2018
• AKI From Contrast CT Scans: Is There an Association? Dr Patel reviews a study, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, that compares outcomes between patients receiving contrast-enhanced CT and those receiving noncontrast CT.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, March 2018
• Two Simple Ways to Improve Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Recent data support taking a hard look at clinical practices surrounding diagnostic testing in C difficile and bloodstream infections.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), March 2018
• When Missing a 'Zebra' Can Land You in Court Physicians are generally unlikely to face a malpractice suit for misdiagnosing a rare disease, which affects about 1 in 10 people. But the results of a delayed or wrong diagnosis can be devastating or lethal.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 2018
• Therapy Duration and Follow-up Blood Cultures in Bacteremia Two recent studies can help streamline therapy of gram-negative bloodstream infections.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), February 2018
• To Err Is Homicide in Britain: The Case of Dr Bawa-Garba Saurabh Jha, a US-based, British-trained medic who worked in the NHS for 4 years, discusses the case of a UK trainee pediatrician convicted of homicide for the death of a child from sepsis.
  February 2018
• Combating Frailty's Fatal Impact in Liver Disease Dr Rowen Zetterman on the various ways in which frailty imperils outcomes in liver disease, and the most useful strategies for addressing them.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, January 2018
• Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Dr Eric Topol identifies the latest tech advances in medicine that set the stage for the coming year.
  Medscape, January 2018
• Blood Cultures in Children Hospitalized With CAP? Dr William Basco comments on a recent multicenter study looking at true rates of bacteremia in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.
  Medscape Pediatrics, December 2017
• What We Can Learn From Treating Sepsis in Low-Resource Settings Dr Martin reviews a study from Zambia that sought to determine whether early resuscitation with IV fluids, vasopressors, and blood transfusion would decrease mortality from sepsis vs usual care.
  Medscape Critical Care, December 2017
• Innovations Are Brightening Liver Transplantation Outcomes Dr William Balistreri recaps the breakthroughs that are increasing options for patients on the liver transplant waitlist.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, December 2017
• Does Rushing Kids to the OR Prevent Complicated Appendicitis? A large study seeks to answer the question: Does time to appendectomy influence the development of complicated appendicitis? Dr William Basco comments.
  Medscape Pediatrics, November 2017