Brad Cutrell, MD FIDSA
@bradcutrellmd.bsky.social
UTSW ID doc. Fellowship PD, ASP Director, OFID deputy editor. Interested in MedED and EBM in infectious diseases.
🆕✨Systematic review and meta-analysis Toxin results cannot rule in or rule out CDI, and the decision whether to treat symptomatic NAAT+/EIA− patients for CDI should be based on clinical presentation and not on the toxin result #idsky #EMIMCC #medsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Clinical significance of toxin EIA positivity in patients with suspected Clostridioides difficile infection: systematic review and meta-analysis | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a common cause of healthcare-associated infections and the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. However, the laboratory diagnosis of CDI, primar...
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The timing of this story is heated, with health insurance industry in the news, but I was honored to collaborate with @fumikochino.bsky.social and grateful to my patient and his family for the chance to draw/write about the pain of #priorauth for @usatoday.com . www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
For patients and doctors, insurance prior authorization can be a dangerous game | Opinion
Doctors trying to get patients necessary drugs and procedures stymied by health insurance prior authorization. It's not a game. It's life and death.
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Excited to welcome our top US healthcare Epi society @sheaepi.bsky.social and its journals @ashejournal.bsky.social @ichejournal.bsky.social to #IDSky community! @priyanori.bsky.social @germhuntermd.bsky.social
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One of my approaches when we have residents/students/pharmD residents is to mention a key article/study and then have one of the trainees (not the busy ID fellow!) review and give a brief summary (3-5 mins) the next day. Everybody on team learns and find it more engaging. #IDsky
Joseph Marcus@josephmarcusid.medsky.social · 2y agoWhat is the correct # of articles for attending to send ID fellow after rounds? #IDSky 1️⃣ Many articles on relevant topics 2️⃣ 1-2 articles on relevant topics 3️⃣ Give fellow topics; up to fellow to find articles 4️⃣ Other (pls comment below) 📊 Show results
Could not be more excited to announce the incoming 2025 UTSW ID Fellows! These talented and passionate docs are amazing and the microbes better watch out! #IDSky #WeareID #Match2025 #HIVSky @utswinfdis.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social
Come join one of the best ID pharmacy and stewardship teams in the country with us at UT Southwestern in Dallas! #IDSky #PharmSky @sidpharm.bsky.social @utswinfdis.bsky.social @netanyautay.bsky.social @jdbeckham.bsky.social
Maggie Monogue@tazoswift.bsky.social · 2y agoID PharmD job opening in Dallas, Texas!! join our team 🥰 @bradcutrellmd.bsky.social @ricardolahozmd.bsky.social jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/21346700...
Important work led by former UAB CMR and @utswinfdis.bsky.social own ID fellow Julie England and her mentors Drs. Walker, Lee and colleagues! #IDSky @ricardolahozmd.bsky.social @hivdocsk.bsky.social
Joseph Marcus@josephmarcusid.medsky.social · 2y agoOne of the most controversial diagnoses in ECMO is VAP. New proposed ECMO-associated pneumonia proposed by UAB: 1) Worsening O2 by flow/sweep changes 2) 🔺 temperature or WBC 3) Pos quantitative BAL or endotracheal aspirate #IDSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Give a great big #IDSky and #HIVsky welcome to one of the most incredible HIV physicians (and physicians in general) that I have ever met, Dr Kitchell! Give her a follow and say hi! @ricardolahozmd.bsky.social @hivdocsk.bsky.social
Ellen Kitchell, MD, FIDSA, AAHIVM-S@ellenkitchell.bsky.social · 2y agoBuenas from Dallas! On my friend Sidd's suggestion (@hivdocsk.bsky.social), I'm looking forward to drawing strength from my ID/HIV community here! Looking forward to interesting conversations with #IDSky and @HIVsky. Y'all are the best!
🆕✨Retrospective population-based cohort study examined infection risk after colonization for MRSA,VRE,ESBL& CPE over a 5-year period For all organisms the highest risk period of progression from colonization to infection was the first 90d #idsky #medsky academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
Long-term Risk of Infection Among Patients Colonized with Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens: A Population-wide Cohort Study
This was a retrospective population-based cohort study that examined infection risk after colonization for MRSA, VRE, ESBL, and CPE over a 5-year period us
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For my inaugural post, Im proud to announce the publication of our Safer@Home care model. This is going to change how medicine is practiced. No need to admit pts "for IV antibiotics" anymore. Or just for IV diuresis in CHF. Or just for EtOH withdrawal. Etc. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Virtual Home Care for Patients With Acute Illness
This cohort study compares outcomes of patients receiving care in an outpatient, virtual, home-based acute care model with outcomes of patients receiving standard hospital care.
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In this single-center retrospective study, @mularoni.bsky.social tested donors (3%) and recipients (8%) for HHV-8. Most of the donor-derived HHV-8-related disease manifested as KICS!! 🤯 On the other hand, most reactivations presented as KS. #TxID #IDSky pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39551265/
Serologic screening and molecular surveillance of Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV)/human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) infections for early recognition and effective treatment of KSHV-associated inflammatory...
Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus/human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients can be life-threatening. We evaluated the seroprevalence of HHV-...
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Conventional intermittent dosing remains the current standard of care for beta-lactam antibiotics 🆕🔥 Editorial with ✨Prof.Jason Roberts Is it time to implement prolonged infusions of beta-lactam antibiotics in and beyond critical care settings? #idsky #medsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It’s cool that folks can reinvent themselves during the #IDSky migration Some have been surprised to find plum handles unclaimed eg @iddoc.bsky.social But the best transformation 🐛➡️🦋 is @MaggieMonogue to @tazoswift.bsky.social
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So excited to have the one and only @tazoswift.bsky.social on #IDSky queen of all things PKPD and Taylor Swift! Give her a shoutout and follow @ricardolahozmd.bsky.social @sidpharm.bsky.social @ebhirsch.bsky.social @mmpharmd.bsky.social @erinmccreary.bsky.social
Please welcome our UTSW ID chief @jdbeckham.bsky.social to the #IDSky community! @paulsaxmd.bsky.social @germhuntermd.bsky.social @ricardolahozmd.bsky.social @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social @netanyautay.bsky.social
Seeing so many #IDSky people here, wanted to resurface the most widely shared #VisualAbstract in the first year we started making them. #MedSky (35k views in 7 days!) Antibiotic stewardship for surgeons in Annals. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
Key paper alert 'Seven-year performance of a clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing test for diagnosis of central nervous system infections' www.nature.com/articles/s41... 'These data justify routine use of diagnostic mNGS testing for hospitalized patients with suspected CNS infection'
Seven-year performance of a clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing test for diagnosis of central nervous system infections - Nature Medicine
Next-generation metagenomic testing increases the accuracy and sensitivity of the etiology of central nervous system infections in hospitalized patients.
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