Hospital Medicine   

For example, do you find trending WBC, procalcitonin, CRP, etc., more or less helpful?

Rogers & Rice, PMID 38018162

ASPs are common place. The studies supporting ASPs oversaw doctors, not specifically trained in Infectious Diseases. However, several institutions hav...

Is there a role for oral vancomycin in these patients, or is oral vancomycin redundant if other routes of administration are being used (i.e intracolo...

Do you extend the course of fidaxomicin past initial 10 days to at least 3-7 days after completion of antibiotics?

Data on the role of steroids in HIV negative patients with PJP has been conflicting.

Is parasitemia >10% and severe hemolysis with Hb less than 7 enough to initiate this?

The ESC guidelines recommend obtaining at least three sets of blood cultures at 30-minute intervals before starting antibiotic therapy, each with 10 m...

Hendriks, et al., PMID 38576380

ACORN Randomized Clinical Trial 

Would you still routinely ask for CIED removal, or would you pursue PET/CT for further evaluation and consider keeping CIED if PET/CT negative?

If yes, what is the rationale for doing that? 

If yes, which combination(s)?

Do the findings of the PROPHY-VAP trial influence your approach?

Do the results of the recent study (Misset et al., PMID 37889107) showing reduction in 28-day mortality in patients with high neutralizing antibody ti...

In light of published data from the CAPE COD trial...

What’s your threshold to get the three AFBs and place the patient in airborne isolation?

How do you approach which risk to accept given that steroids have evidence for use in COVID-19 while is suggestion for harm in using steroids in influ...