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Caitlin Ellis

@caitjellis.bsky.social

ID PharmD • War Eagle • Views are my own

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complicated Urinary Tract Infection (cUTI) Guideline on Treatment and Management

It’s out! IDSA #cUTI guidelines 7/17/25. Now the fun begins….😌 #IDsky #AMSsky @idsainfo.bsky.social @sidpharm.bsky.social

www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

17.07.2025 19:12 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: penicillin allergies

❓ Q: My patient reports a reaction to penicillin (acute, self-limited rash) over 10 years ago. Can they safely receive cefazolin for their MSSA infection?
#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX #AMSsky

16.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Check out a new series in Clinical Infectious Diseases: Clinical Dilemmas in Infectious Diseases📑 This section features clinical problem-solving exercises presented by a discussant unpacking treatment decisions as the case unfolds. 🧵1/2

11.07.2025 13:02 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: sputum interpretation

❓ Q: My patient has 4+ growth of an organism on respiratory culture. Does this mean he has pneumonia?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX #AMSsky

09.07.2025 15:28 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Tetracycline and Acinetobacter breakpoints in table format

Tetracycline and Acinetobacter breakpoints in table format

Breakpoint updates from #CLSI for Acinetobacter spp.
📌Tetracycline urine breakpoint was removed based on absence of data to support. Doxycycline removed in Jan 2025 and minocycline breakpoint lowered #MedSky #IDSky

03.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: revisiting Vancomycin Zosyn nephrotoxicity

❓ Q: Is the combination of vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam safe for the kidneys?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

28.05.2025 14:28 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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📣 Attention Program Directors! Sign up is OPEN!

🌟 MAD-ID is excited to spotlight your PGY2 ID pharmacy residency or ID pharmacy fellowship program in the upcoming academic year!

🎓 See eligibility criteria!

Sign up: forms.office.com/r/86HfX98XqT

@SIDPharm.bsky.social
@accpinfdprn.bsky.social

28.05.2025 12:02 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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🥳 Official programming for #MADID2025 kicks off today with interactive workshops! 🤓

🍄 Fungal stewardship, 📈 NHSN AR, 🤖 AI in stewardship education, and 💊 New Antibiotic Formulary Decisions!

@sidpharm.bsky.social @accpinfdprn.bsky.social @contagionlive.bsky.social

28.05.2025 19:01 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Couldn’t let the day go by without wishing a happy ID Pharmacist Day to all my fellow ID pharmies out there! 🦠🧫💊

I sure love what I do, and even in the tough days (#iykyk), I couldn’t imagine doing anything else!

22.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Today, May 22, is Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Day!

Join the @sidpharm.bsky.social Bluesky chat from 11–12 noon CDT today and use the hashtag #IDPharmacistsDay to recognize the importance of ID pharmacists in patient care

22.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Nothing is better than seeing this study published just in time for ID Pharmacists Day! 🥳 #IDSky

19.05.2025 23:45 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Day is Thursday! Join the chat here 5/22 12-1PMEST help us celebrate the amazing work ID pharmacists do every day. #IDPharmacistsDay, #SIDPAdvocacy, #PharmacistsLeadingChange @sidpharm.bsky.social @accpinfdprn.bsky.social

20.05.2025 10:01 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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To kick off a new series ID/AMS Reading Lists series, SIDP is here to help you "Hit 'Em with Your Best Nudge"! Check out this noticeable (and unnoticed) nudge comments in AMS! #IDSky #rxsky #pharmsky #AMSsky #medsky #SIDP #EvidenceBasedMedicine #IDPharmacy #Microbiology #Nudge #NudgeComments

20.05.2025 12:10 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Ceftobiprole Launches Commercially in US Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics’ antibiotic is the first and only FDA-approved cephalosporin indicated to treat Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), including right-sided endocarditis, caused by th...

Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics’ antibiotic is the first and only FDA-approved cephalosporin indicated to treat Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, including right-sided endocarditis, caused by the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. #IDsky #Medsky

20.05.2025 14:57 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Positive UCx but unable to verbalize UTI symptoms

❓ Q: My elderly patient had a fall with altered mental status, and UCx is growing pan-S E. coli (>100K CFU/mL). They are unable to verbalize UTI symptoms. Should I treat for UTI?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

08.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

My latest for @contagionlive.bsky.social on the lastest data about cellulitis epidemiology and how we can use that to update our treatment paradigms! #IDSky

30.04.2025 18:47 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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@steventong.bsky.social presents the results of the PSSA domain of the SNAP 🫰 trial - the worlds largest trial of staph aureus bacteremia - at #ESCMID2025

fluclox resulted in higher mortality and more AKI compared to penicillin for PSSA

12.04.2025 14:44 — 👍 76    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 2

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Candida in urine cx💊

❓ Q: My patient is growing Candida albicans in his urine, do I need to treat him?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

07.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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ID PRN and SIDP members 📣📣 Are you or your team presenting at at ESCMID Global or the SHEA Spring Meeting this year?! If so, fill out this quick survey by Tues, April 1 so we can recognize your accomplishments and show off your hard work ‼️🔬🧪 #IDSky

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

14.03.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: bilateral LE erythema = cellulitis?

❓ Q: What are common mimickers of cellulitis?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

14.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Nasal MRSA PCR in pneumonia💊
❓ Q: If my patient with pneumonia has a positive MRSA nasal PCR but respiratory cultures are negative for MRSA, do I need to continue vancomycin for a full course of therapy?
#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

13.03.2025 16:09 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Yeast coverage in intra-abdominal infections 💊
📋 Q: My patient has an intra-abdominal infection. Should I add empiric coverage for yeast?
What if they have a gastrointestinal perforation?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

25.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Complicated Urinary Tract Infections

Have you seen the news?! 🥳

The long awaited cUTI guidelines are up for comments! 🤓📚

🔗: www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

Check it out & be sure to get your comments in by March 19, 2025 @ 5pm! #IDSky #PharmSky

20.02.2025 02:35 — 👍 17    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of IDSA cUTI guideline open for public comment

Screenshot of IDSA cUTI guideline open for public comment

Draft of IDSA cUTI guideline showing steps to follow for selection of therapy

Draft of IDSA cUTI guideline showing steps to follow for selection of therapy

Figure 2 flowchart showing stepwise assessment of IV to PO switch and duration of therapy

Figure 2 flowchart showing stepwise assessment of IV to PO switch and duration of therapy

Figure showing old vs new definition of uUTI, cUTi, and acute pyelonephritis

Figure showing old vs new definition of uUTI, cUTi, and acute pyelonephritis

‼️The @idsainfo.bsky.social cUTI guideline 📄 draft is now available for public comment🗣️! This version has been reviewed by 15+ orgs & revised according to extensive feedback provided to us. www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

UTIsky IDsky Medsky PharmSky

20.02.2025 00:18 — 👍 46    🔁 22    💬 5    📌 2

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Febrile neutropenia (FN)- vancomycin de-escalation 💊
📋 Q: ❓ Q: I started vancomycin + cefepime for a patient with FN admitted with shock. On day 3, no pressors, cultures are negative, unclear source. Can I discontinue vancomycin?

#IDsky #medsky #meded #pharmsky #skyRX

10.02.2025 19:40 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

🌟 ABX Pearl of the Day: Susceptible-Dose Dependent (SDD) 💊
📋 Q: What does it mean when the lab reports my isolate as being “susceptible-dose dependent” (SDD)?
#IDsky #MedSky #PharmSky

13.01.2025 15:30 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

#IDSky I need your insight/opinion/data! 🧐
Do you have a rule/guidance in regard to how much of a pre-op antibiotic should be infused prior to surgery? (I.e at least 50%, 80%, etc.) 🔪💉💊 I know best practice would be all but if you were in a crunch….

08.01.2025 17:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The ID PRN has made its way to BlueSky! Check out the account ⬇️ and be sure to check out the journal club on Friday! 📚🤓🦠 #IDSky

08.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Where Are They Now? Q&A with Dr. Brian Lu By: Cara Slaton, PharmD, BCIDPBrian Lu, PharmD Dr. Brian Lu is a clinical and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist at Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley. He completed his PGY-1 residency as well as his…

📯 Check out a Q&A with Brian Lu 🌟 on his research presented at #MADID2024 🏥 about combination 💊+💊 therapy for mucormycosis 🍄! https://buff.ly/4ft5GgB #IDSky

📝 Now published in OFID! https://buff.ly/4fKQR8K

17.12.2024 13:00 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Continuing day 2 of ASHP Midyear 24 with @dhpharmd.bsky.social & Dr. Manasco discussing updates in treatment of GN bacterial infxns! 🤓🦠 can’t beat a good coverage table 👏🏼 #IDSky #PharmSky

09.12.2024 20:18 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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