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David Hettle
@david-hettle.bsky.social
Doctor: Infectious Diseases/Microbiology

Currently @ebibristol.bsky.social + @thruzim.bsky.social Global Health Fellow in 🇿🇼 exploring lab systems: AMR, promoting antimicrobial stewardship, TB.

#MedEd. Interests: career development of MedEd-ucators
Great to join #ReActAfrica and @southcentre.bsky.social at #AARC25 for 2 days of discussion and learning about #AMR across Africa

#antimicrobialresistance
June 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Look after patients with neonatal sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa?

🫵We want to hear from YOU!

❓Why❓
Exploring clinicians experiences of diagnostics, antibiotics + guidelines

📢 English, French or Portuguese

🔗 redcap.sun.ac.za/surveys/?s=N9A…
April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Back at the #ESCMIDGlobal clinical round - watching the experts' #clinicalreasoning in all kinds of cases

🧫 First up - Whipple's disease

Long-term arthralgia
Cardiac involvement
Persistent diarrhea even after fevers settle

#ESCMID2025 #IDSky
April 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Amazing to present our work (with @tinamwat.bsky.social) on developing blood culture processes in Harare 🇿🇼 at #ESCMID2025 #ESCMIDGlobal

And great to meet others + chat about the work's impact in #neonatalsepsis + #AMR #AMS #antimicrobialstewardship

@thruzim.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Essential diagnostics in low-resource settings

Sipho Dlamini, Dissou Affolabi, @makedasemret.bsky.social insights on
💥 Brain drain
💥 Lack of granularity in calls to improve
💡 Lessons of networks (echoing TB labs) in SSA

Current status: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#ESCMIDGlobal #ESCMID2025
April 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#AI is here + will become key in #antimicrobialstewardship #AMS

Flagged by Prof Thursky @ncas.bsky.social at #ESCMID2025 #ESCMIDGlobal - this paper is a great blueprint for implementing AI in AMS programmes

Link: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
April 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New Frontiers in Antimicrobial Stewardship @escmid.bsky.social

Keynote lecture: Karin Thursky @ncas.bsky.social

How can we reframe + conceptualize #AMS to work for 2025 + beyond.

Who outside of healthcare really know the ins and outs of what #AMR #AMS mean?

#ESCMIDGlobal #ESCMID2025
April 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Critical talk to think about moving from #AMR surveillance + antibiotic use data
⬇️
Stewardship initiatives #AMS

Talk from Mark de Boer on bridging the gap!

#ESCMIDglobal #ESCMID2025
April 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Just in the session on Proxy Indicators now
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Starting Sunday at #ESCMID2025 #ESCMIDglobal debating 'Proxy indicators: bridging the gap between #AMR surveillance and #antimicrobialstewardship #AMS

Finding a way to tie quantity metrics to appropriateness of prescription

A start to #AMS Sunday according to @dianeashiru.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
April 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Do you care for patients with neonatal sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa?

🫵We want to hear from YOU!

redcap.sun.ac.za/surveys/?s=N9A…

❓Why❓
To explore clinicians views on diagnostics, antibiotics and guidelines

📢In English, French or Portuguese.#neonatalsepsisi#neonatese#sepsisis
April 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM