Madeline Belk
@madelinebelk.bsky.social
ID PharmD in the Rocket City | Trying to fight the bugs, save the drugs, & keep up with my littles
Registration is now open for the 5th annual ALIDS Conference!
Join us for a FREE CE event with a great lineup of speakers ft. topics around Gram neg resistance, outpatient stewardship, phage therapy & more!
🗓️ Saturday, July 19
📍 Birmingham, AL
🔗 aub.ethosce.com/content/alab...
Join us for a FREE CE event with a great lineup of speakers ft. topics around Gram neg resistance, outpatient stewardship, phage therapy & more!
🗓️ Saturday, July 19
📍 Birmingham, AL
🔗 aub.ethosce.com/content/alab...
June 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Registration is now open for the 5th annual ALIDS Conference!
Join us for a FREE CE event with a great lineup of speakers ft. topics around Gram neg resistance, outpatient stewardship, phage therapy & more!
🗓️ Saturday, July 19
📍 Birmingham, AL
🔗 aub.ethosce.com/content/alab...
Join us for a FREE CE event with a great lineup of speakers ft. topics around Gram neg resistance, outpatient stewardship, phage therapy & more!
🗓️ Saturday, July 19
📍 Birmingham, AL
🔗 aub.ethosce.com/content/alab...
📢 Healthcare friends interested in infectious diseases!
Save the date for the 5th Annual Alabama Infectious Diseases Society (ALIDS) Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference. We are looking forward to another year of great programming & would love to have you join us! 🤓🧫🦠
Save the date for the 5th Annual Alabama Infectious Diseases Society (ALIDS) Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference. We are looking forward to another year of great programming & would love to have you join us! 🤓🧫🦠
February 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📢 Healthcare friends interested in infectious diseases!
Save the date for the 5th Annual Alabama Infectious Diseases Society (ALIDS) Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference. We are looking forward to another year of great programming & would love to have you join us! 🤓🧫🦠
Save the date for the 5th Annual Alabama Infectious Diseases Society (ALIDS) Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference. We are looking forward to another year of great programming & would love to have you join us! 🤓🧫🦠
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🚨 Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections
BALANCE trial publication is here !
#IDsky #Medsky
@idjclub.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
BALANCE trial publication is here !
#IDsky #Medsky
@idjclub.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM
Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...
www.nejm.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections
BALANCE trial publication is here !
#IDsky #Medsky
@idjclub.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
BALANCE trial publication is here !
#IDsky #Medsky
@idjclub.bsky.social
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Happy Antibiotic Awareness Week!! Giving these cuties out during infectious diseases trivia with our pharmacists today ☺️🧫💊
November 18, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Happy Antibiotic Awareness Week!! Giving these cuties out during infectious diseases trivia with our pharmacists today ☺️🧫💊
Reposted by Madeline Belk
New paper from my colleagues at UCLH
Nearly 70% (!!!) resistance to Cefiderocol in NDM positive bacteria.
Cefiderocol...we hardly knew ye...
Perfect timing for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #waaw24 #IDSky
academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...
Nearly 70% (!!!) resistance to Cefiderocol in NDM positive bacteria.
Cefiderocol...we hardly knew ye...
Perfect timing for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #waaw24 #IDSky
academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...
Resistance profiles of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in a large centre in England: are we already losing cefiderocol?
AbstractBackground. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) pose difficult therapeutic challenges. We aimed to characterize antimicrobial resistance
academic.oup.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:34 AM
New paper from my colleagues at UCLH
Nearly 70% (!!!) resistance to Cefiderocol in NDM positive bacteria.
Cefiderocol...we hardly knew ye...
Perfect timing for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #waaw24 #IDSky
academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...
Nearly 70% (!!!) resistance to Cefiderocol in NDM positive bacteria.
Cefiderocol...we hardly knew ye...
Perfect timing for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #waaw24 #IDSky
academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...
Reposted by Madeline Belk
The aim of this review was to summarize the pharmacokinetic and drug–drug interaction profile of the recently introduced CMV agents letermovir and maribavir #idsky #bookmark #TxID
Both letermovir & maribavir can be perpetrator or victim of a drug–drug interaction
🆕️🔥 #CPK
Drug–Drug Interaction Management with the Novel Anti-Cytomegalovirus Agents Letermovir & Maribavir: Guidance for Clinicians #idsky
✨️tables✨️ #bookmark
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🆕️🔥 #CPK
Drug–Drug Interaction Management with the Novel Anti-Cytomegalovirus Agents Letermovir & Maribavir: Guidance for Clinicians #idsky
✨️tables✨️ #bookmark
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Drug–Drug Interaction Management with the Novel Anti-Cytomegalovirus Agents Letermovir and Maribavir: Guidance for Clinicians - Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Letermovir and maribavir have demonstrated efficacy in the prevention and treatment, respectively, of immunosuppressed patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and disease. These patients often h...
link.springer.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Madeline Belk
Presented on ED abx stewardship to our new ED physician group. Highlighted our ASB treatment rates, educated on our UTI guidelines, and showed our compliance with STI screening with CDC recommendations. How do you engage your ED teams for abx stewardship? #IDsky #Pharmsky #Medsky
November 15, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Reposted by Madeline Belk
Hey #IDsky #MedSky 👋
Do you know your
Evans-based Medicine Rules ?
You can now learn them with @skepticaliddoc.bsky.social on 🦋! Welcome 🤗
Do you know your
Evans-based Medicine Rules ?
You can now learn them with @skepticaliddoc.bsky.social on 🦋! Welcome 🤗
November 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Hey #IDsky #MedSky 👋
Do you know your
Evans-based Medicine Rules ?
You can now learn them with @skepticaliddoc.bsky.social on 🦋! Welcome 🤗
Do you know your
Evans-based Medicine Rules ?
You can now learn them with @skepticaliddoc.bsky.social on 🦋! Welcome 🤗
Reposted by Madeline Belk
Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Reposted by Madeline Belk
Starting off with a few ABX pearls based on the most common syndromes and topics that we encounter day-to-day. (Please note our website resources too!) 📑
November 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Starting off with a few ABX pearls based on the most common syndromes and topics that we encounter day-to-day. (Please note our website resources too!) 📑
Reposted by Madeline Belk
"If bacteria were sentient,they likely would not care which route antibiotics took on their way to eradicating them. Rather, they would care about how much antibiotic made it to their place of residence & whether it metabolically poisoned them" #idsky 🔥
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Oral antibiotics for S. aureus bacteremia including endocarditis: sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
Todd C Lee, MD MPH FIDSA, Brad Spellberg, MD, Emily G McDonald, MD MSc; Oral antibiotics for S. aureus bacteremia including endocarditis: sauce for the goo
academic.oup.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:56 PM
"If bacteria were sentient,they likely would not care which route antibiotics took on their way to eradicating them. Rather, they would care about how much antibiotic made it to their place of residence & whether it metabolically poisoned them" #idsky 🔥
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Reposted by Madeline Belk
#Buesky is really what Twitter used to be. I love seeing folks from all over the world come here and talk medicine, science or even daily life without fear of retaliation or malice. Very happy to be here. ☺️
November 13, 2024 at 2:09 PM
#Buesky is really what Twitter used to be. I love seeing folks from all over the world come here and talk medicine, science or even daily life without fear of retaliation or malice. Very happy to be here. ☺️
Reposted by Madeline Belk
One of the best state-of-the-art papers yet. I ❤️ the emphasis on non-antibiotic strategies, and not just throwing antibiotics away without a surgical plan in place. #IDSky
There's still good in this world 🌏 #IDsky 🦋
and by GOOD I mean the CID-STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEWS
💯 Must-read for General I.D. (if not already done)
«Evaluation and Management of Pelvic Osteomyelitis in Stage IV Pressure Injuries: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Approach»
doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
and by GOOD I mean the CID-STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEWS
💯 Must-read for General I.D. (if not already done)
«Evaluation and Management of Pelvic Osteomyelitis in Stage IV Pressure Injuries: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Approach»
doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
November 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM
One of the best state-of-the-art papers yet. I ❤️ the emphasis on non-antibiotic strategies, and not just throwing antibiotics away without a surgical plan in place. #IDSky
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Hey #pedsIDSky and #IDSky! Looking for a recent interesting article that I could discuss for my journal club. Diagnostic Stewardship is my main interest but anything #ID will be good to look into! Let's see what others have been reading!
November 12, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Hey #pedsIDSky and #IDSky! Looking for a recent interesting article that I could discuss for my journal club. Diagnostic Stewardship is my main interest but anything #ID will be good to look into! Let's see what others have been reading!
Super informative post!! Close to home as there’s been an outbreak at my kiddos daycare. 4 yo was hardly phased but my poor 2 yo is getting rocked 😣😷
Standing in solidarity with all those taking care of littles this respiratory illness season ❤️🩹
Standing in solidarity with all those taking care of littles this respiratory illness season ❤️🩹
MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE
This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
#IDSky #PedSky #PedsIDSky 🧪
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This cheeky little intracellular bacteria seems to be up to mischief with kids in the USA at the moment
A quick thread on this bug, what's going on, and what to do (or not do!) about it
#IDSky #PedSky #PedsIDSky 🧪
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November 12, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Super informative post!! Close to home as there’s been an outbreak at my kiddos daycare. 4 yo was hardly phased but my poor 2 yo is getting rocked 😣😷
Standing in solidarity with all those taking care of littles this respiratory illness season ❤️🩹
Standing in solidarity with all those taking care of littles this respiratory illness season ❤️🩹
Reposted by Madeline Belk
Hi #IDSky #PharmSky 👋🏼
I’m Madeline, an ID/ASP pharmacist in the Rocket City 🚀 💫 Here for all the bug/drug content 🧫💊& look forward to engaging with everyone on this platform 🤗
I’m Madeline, an ID/ASP pharmacist in the Rocket City 🚀 💫 Here for all the bug/drug content 🧫💊& look forward to engaging with everyone on this platform 🤗
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November 12, 2024 at 12:26 AM