Ep.93 – Return of the Penicillin Allergy Label

Episode Notes

In this exciting episode, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Dr. April Dyer discusses a hot off the press article that follows up the results from the big PALACE trial that was published in 2023. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2822413

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Ep.92 – Is One Better Than the Other? Analyzing surrogates for oral cephalosporin susceptibilities

Episode Notes

In this exciting episode, Dr. Jeannette Bouchard is joined by Drs. Katie Lambert and Catessa Howard to discuss their newly published brief report in OFID that helps shine a light on a common clinical issue, is cefazolin or ceftriaxone a better surrogate for third generation oral cephalosporins.

The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11245689/

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Is ID the Consult of Fear?

Episode Notes

In this episode, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. April Dyer walks us through an article from Clinical Infectious Diseases entitled "Beyond Infection: Mortality and End-of-Life Care Associated with Infectious Disease Consultation in an Academic Health System."

The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38867715/

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Ep.90 – It Goes On and On and On: Reviewing the new RCT for Continuous infusion vs. Intermittent infusion Beta-lactams

In this exciting episode, Drs. Libby Dodds Ashley and Jeannette Bouchard are joined by Dr. Jason Roberts to discuss his two newly published articles in JAMA that help to answer the question: is there a difference between continuous and intermittent infusions of beta-lactam antibiotics, especially in the critically ill populations?

The reviewed materials can be found here: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/blog/it-goes-and-and-reviewing-new-rct-continuous-infusion-vs-intermittent-infusion-beta-lactams

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Ep.89 – Infectious Disease Consultations: Can AI Really Replace Human Experts?

In this episode of the DASON Digest podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Angelina Davis talks to us about the use of AI in the management of bloodstream infections. The article reviewed can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/78/4/825/7308526

Ep.88 – Is the debate back?: A retrospective study in patients with sepsis who received piperacillin-tazobactam vs. cefepime

Episode Notes

In this episode, Dr. Jeannette Bouchard discusses a newly published article in JAMA about the use of piperacillin-tazobactam and cefepime in sepsis. This episode also ties into a previous episode (#74) and we would recommend listening to both episodes!

The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2818278

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Ep.87 – BCI(De-escalation): The Impact of Rapid Diagnostics and Stewardship Intervention on Treatment of Contaminated Blood Cultures

Episode Notes

In this episode, University of Kentucky Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residents, Will Harris and Tyler Pitcock, review a recently published article evaluating the impact of the implementation of rapid blood culture identification technology and stewardship intervention on treatment of blood cultures contaminated with coagulase-negative staphylococci. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/8/ofad416/7233915

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Ep.86 – PEN-FAST and Furious: The efficacy of the PEN-FAST tool in de-labeling previously reported penicillin allergies

Episode Notes

In this episode, University of Kentucky PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residents, Will Harris and Tyler Pitcock, discuss the recently published article evaluating the efficacy of the clinical decision tool, PEN-FAST, in de-labeling patients with reported penicillin allergies with one of the authors and Duke University Hospital Infectious Diseases Physicians, Dr. Nick Turner. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37459086/

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Ep.85 – The devil's in the defaults: the impact of eliminating default durations of therapy

Episode Notes

In this episode, Duke University Hospital Infectious Diseases Pharmacist Dr. Rebekah Wrenn and her resident, Amy Mackowiak, review Dr. Wrenn's recently published article evaluating the impact of default duration elimination on exposure to fluoroquinolone therapy.  The article reviewed in today's episode can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38347810/

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Ep.84 – Navigating the LAByrinth: Updates in Antibacterial Susceptibility Testing

Episode Notes

In this episode of the DASON Digest Podcast, one of our DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaisons, Dr. Melissa Johnson, talks with Dr. Jim Lewis, ID Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator and Adjunct Associate Professor at Oregon Health & Science University Departments of Pharmacy and ID in Portland, Oregon. The material reviewed in today's podcast can be found here: https://clsi.org/standards/products/microbiology/documents/m100/

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