Aaron Heffernan

Urine E.coli isolate. Sens to cefalexin, ceftriaxone, meropenem. Resistant piptaz, gent, amox/clav. What is the mechanism of resistance??

CRE RESPOND AMO Seminar Obese Patients - our first speaker, Jack Cross, is currently speaking on "Antibacterial dosing in obesity - clinical cases". #UQCCR @jasonroberts_pk @GileadSciences @pfizer @UQPharmacy @ABsteward @UQMedicine

Join us tomorrow at AMO Obese Patients seminar to hear about optimising antibacterial & antifungal dosing with Chair, Dr Hafiz Abdul-Aziz & speakers Jack Cross & Haifa Lyster. Register: bit.ly/3Ois2oA #UQCCR @jasonroberts_pk @HaifaLyster @CHUNimes @pfizer @GileadSciences

@TPP_MD The wool series is a must read for any fan of the dystopia genre.

Going to the beach today. Need an audible/audio book for the 4 hour drive there and back. Categories I like: business, self-improvement, dystopian, and “who done it” Ready? Go! #books #booklover #beachtrip

@jimdpm @TPP_MD Great book

@TPP_MD Snow Crash

@HaifaLyster @cathymac40 @DrAnnaReed @jasonroberts_pk @paulrutter10 Congratulations!!

So thrilled to have passed my PhD viva today! 🥳 Huge thanks to @cathymac40 and David Laight for rigorous discussion - I know where ‘PhD defence’ comes from now! Massive thanks @DrAnnaReed @jasonroberts_pk Kevin Watts Jeremy mills and @paulrutter10 for supervision & mentorship!

@YukiKotani5 @ABsteward @Inox94 Good point. Thank you for highlighting that to me.

@Critcare_bear @ABsteward @Inox94 No. The inclusion criterion of “required new antibiotic treatment with meropenem by clinician assessment” resulted in the enrollment of primarily patients with hospital-acquired sepsis at randomization.

🔥🆕️MERCY RCT🆕️🔥 Continuous administration of meropenem, compared with intermittent administration, does NOT improve clinically relevant outcomes in critically ill patients with sepsis. #IDTwitter jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Nurses save lives. I see this all the time in the ICU. It's a curious thing - both obvious, yet also frequently overlooked. 🙏Thank you for everything that you do. #NursesWeek

Such a good book. Many lessons that can be applied in the context of clinical decision making for medicine and patient care.

Additionally, domain experts are paradoxically more susceptible to the confirmation bias as they can better contort reality to conform to their prior beliefs. An important reminder to appreciate outliers and 'skepticism' - it may just keep you grounded in reality.

We change our perspective or analysis to suit the outcome or hypothesised outcome. Quite an important consideration when we think about how most research analysis is performed and how morbidity/mortality meetings are conducted.

@DoverMarian @RACGPPresident @PharmGuildAus @Dom_Perrottet And why do GPs want to dispense? This one I have no idea a out because dispensing is time consuming and challenging. I can understand in remote areas where there is no pharmacy, but otherwise this seems to detract from medical care rather than enhance due to the added pressures.

@DoverMarian @RACGPPresident @PharmGuildAus @Dom_Perrottet The question we should be asking is why pharmacists think they should prescribe? I suspect it has more to do with the difficulties in accessing a GP in a timely manner, which is frustrating for patient and pharmacist alike.

Practicing at "the top of your scope" means embedding yourself in the multidisciplinary team. Rather than fight for my ability to dispense medications as a GP, I want pharmacists working within the team. @RACGPPresident @PharmGuildAus @Dom_Perrottet

#CCPLU Highlights Continuous enteral nutrition leading to less continuous BMs? This @Crit_Care trial found ↑ risk of constipation with continuous EN compared to intermittent feeds, & no other significant differences in ADE’s #PharmICU @Critcare_bear loom.ly/gPaYhuI

It is a journey that only ends when you stop. One must enjoy the journey and not just the end product (consultancy) - the end product is more training.

Let go of the idea that your training will ever be complete. Let go of the idea that you will ever be “finished.” Just keep training.

Just like the Queensland trial, this is a recipe for disaster. I urge the NSW Government in the strongest possible terms not to expand the scope of pharmacists to allow them to prescribe antibiotics. Patient safety and wellbeing is at stake. #PatientCare dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-p…

@HannahKWebster1 @DavidKuICUMelb So true. Any AWS issues there?