Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette

@SamuelBB91

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Calgary, Alberta Katılım Kasım 2014

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Journal of Hospital Medicine@JHospMedicine·9 Ara

How many of your patients are on antibiotics?💉 This article debunks 10 common myths about antibiotic💊 use in hospitals to promote optimal use for all patients, impacting not just those on antibiotics but also those around them.👨‍👩‍👦 #IDTwitter #MedEd bit.ly/3uG8YdX

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·10 Haz

@AntibioticDoc @1min_idconsult Are you able to access 3HP in Alberta?

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Dr. Lynora Saxinger MD FRCPC Infectious Diseases@AntibioticDoc·14 Nis

@1min_idconsult I chose rif x 4 for my work related LTBI :)

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1-min ID consult@1min_IDconsult·14 Nis

【Latent TB infection: Treatment 】Not only INH Please consider drug-drug interaction, cost (resources), and adherence before selecting a regimen!! Level: Intermediate to Advanced Importance: ★★★ #IDTwitter #IDMedEd #IDFellow #IMResident #InternalMedicine #MedEd

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·1 Haz

@BradSpellberg Imagined if you lived in the Netherlands. This would have been a non issue to begin with.

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·8 May

@BradSpellberg @Conortmccartne1 @ABsteward @CIDJournal Thanks for the talk! We've had incredible feedback from peers on the presentation. Both entertaining and informative! It has already helped make more clinicians want to discuss oral therapy for their patients.

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Brad Spellberg@BradSpellberg·8 Mar

@SamuelBB91 @Conortmccartne1 @ABsteward @CIDJournal DM or email me possible dates and let’s set it up!

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Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟@ABsteward·7 Mar

🆕️⚡️⚡️🔥Multicenter Retrospective, Cohort Study @CIDJournal @BradSpellberg et Al Real-world Application of Oral Therapy for Infective Endocarditis The study esults demonstrates similar outcomes of real-world use of oral vs. IV-only therapy for IE academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·20 Mar

@richdavisphd @AUSSOCMIC @10minus6cosm Are there studies that compare growth yield in SBA/CHOC vs BCYE? At the lab I work, we don't have BCYE or 30C incubators. MCM says those would be "optimal" but I'd like to have a better sense of what yield is lost with "suboptimal" conditions.

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Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS🧫🦠@richdavisphd·15 Kas

@AUSSOCMIC @10minus6cosm We see Nocardia growing on routine blood agars (this gram stain came from a sheep blood; see also this picture, Nocardias on SBA and chocolate agar: twitter.com/richdavisphd/s…) But if we're specifically trying to grow Nocardia, we use Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract (BCYE) plates.

Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS🧫🦠@richdavisphd

#MicroRounds Day 314: Nocardia. Beaded-branching, partial acid fast, gram positive rods, Nocardia spp. can have very different colony appearance. these are three isolates sent for molecular ID. Bright white, coral/orange, and off-white colony colors. #ASMClinMicro

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Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS🧫🦠@richdavisphd·14 Kas

Good morning. Here’s a classic-looking Nocardia gram stain: beaded, branching gram positive rods. This grew from a pleural fluid. #microrounds

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·8 Mar

@BradSpellberg @Conortmccartne1 @ABsteward @CIDJournal It'd be great to have you at our medical grand rounds one day to speak about this topic. I've discussed it with some colleagues but exposure to this by a greater audience would help in having recommendations not seem outlandish.

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Brad Spellberg@BradSpellberg·8 Mar

@Conortmccartne1 @ABsteward @CIDJournal Happy to do a grand rounds for you if you can arrange it. As those who have witnessed the spectacle of that oral vs. IV abx talk can attest, people will be talking about it (and my entertaining but likely alarming dementia) for a long time after! Could help change some minds.

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·25 Kas

@DrToddLee @sebpoule @ASPphysician @PaulSaxMD @AshleyGWinter @sigal_md @CIDJournal @emilylheil It seems not at TPB are done the same. New system allows for office procedure under TRUS guidance. They report a learning curve with reflection on side effects - doi.org/10.1111/bju.14… - but just looking at the pictures made me hurt.

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Todd C. Lee@DrToddLee·25 Kas

@SamuelBB91 @sebpoule @ASPphysician @PaulSaxMD @AshleyGWinter @sigal_md @CIDJournal @emilylheil Are there any different risks? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Paul Sax@PaulSaxMD·24 Kas

RCT of rectal culture-based vs. empiric antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent infectious complications after transrectal prostate biopsy. Potentially practice-changing study. Thoughts, @AshleyGWinter? @sigal_md Others? doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci… @CIDJournal

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·25 Kas

@DrToddLee @sebpoule @ASPphysician @PaulSaxMD @AshleyGWinter @sigal_md @CIDJournal @emilylheil I wonder if it is very difficult to learn to do the transperineal biopsies. How many need to be done before their biopsy through this technique has similar sensistivity to transrectal? I need to get to know the urologists at my institution better.

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Todd C. Lee@DrToddLee·25 Kas

@sebpoule @ASPphysician @PaulSaxMD @AshleyGWinter @sigal_md @CIDJournal @emilylheil Know nothing about this journal pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30760274/

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·22 Kas

@BMJ_EBM @DrToddLee @jpogue1 @ErinMcCreary @ASPphysician This echoes a lot of the thoughts our local group has been having regarding pertinence of Paxlovid or Evusheld in NL where vaccination rates is high.

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BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine@BMJ_EBM·19 Kas

What is the place in therapy for nirmatrelvir/ritonavir? A thorough EBM Analysis by @DrToddLee, @jpogue1, @ErinMcCreary, @ASPphysician #FreeAccess #COVID Link: bit.ly/3OgppTY

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·19 Kas

@hepatoMD @RobertT_CM

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Hemant Shah@hepatoMD·19 Kas

Dear Elon, please buy EPIC

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·24 Eki

@MurrayFThompson @NateShivelyMD @IDwithNWD @BradSpellberg I would be worried about gut absorption and effect on bioavailability in the context of sepsis.

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Nate Shively@NateShivelyMD·22 Eki

Oral Therapy for Bacteremia and Endocarditis @IDwithNWD giving talk for @BradSpellberg "No, you're not in the wrong room, and @BradSpellberg did not get younger and more handsome." #IDWeek2022 #IDTwitter

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·24 Eki

@JordanKM19 @NateShivelyMD @IdVilchez @SDoernberg @AnthonyLieuMD @BibbyDr I saw that one on Twitter too. So glad people are sharing the pearls of ID week.

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Jordan Mah@JordanKM19·22 Eki

@NateShivelyMD @IdVilchez @SDoernberg @AnthonyLieuMD @BibbyDr @SamuelBB91 whaaattt 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Nate Shively@NateShivelyMD·21 Eki

Bactrim is fine for most beta-hemolytic strep, folks. Many of us were taught this one incorrectly because thymidine content in agar unregulated until 2006 so looked resistant in old studies. Appreciate @SDoernberg clearing this one up in 2nd myth busters talk. #IDWeek2022

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·8 Eki

@AnthonyLieuMD @JordanKM19 @BibbyDr Chew chew goes the train

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Anthony Lieu@AnthonyLieuMD·8 Eki

@JordanKM19 @SamuelBB91 @BibbyDr Cocci? You work in a BSL3 😱 ?

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Jordan Mah@JordanKM19·8 Eki

when you see the textbook pictures of one of your favourite fungi in the lab 👀 @AnthonyLieuMD @SamuelBB91 @BibbyDr

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·5 Eki

@MaartenVHemelen @ABsteward Are you suggesting 4 wks IV + 2 wks PO of bioavailable drug if OM or 2 wks IV + 4 wks PO bioavailable drug? Both with start time at first negative.l BCx.

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Maarten Van Hemelen@MaartenVHemelen·2 Eki

@ABsteward Even the most conservative interpretation of the literature cannot support this.

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Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟@ABsteward·2 Eki

I don't necessarily agree with all the authors recommendation "A minimum 6 weeks of IV antibiotics therapy is recommended when deep-seated infection, incld endocarditis or osteomyelitis is present" I don't believe there's an evidence for minimum IV "lead in" First (-) culture?!

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Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟@ABsteward

🆕⚡Review of S. aureus bacteremia from a clinical, microbiological lens and the relevant evidence, literature gaps in its management using a case-based approach The Golden Grapes of Wrath – Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia #IDTwitter #MedEd #TwitteRx amjmed.com/article/S0002-…

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Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟@ABsteward·1 Eki

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Firstline@Firstline·5 Tem

We're live! 🙌 Starting today, you can test your microbial knowledge with our daily trivia game: #MicrobialPursuit 🦠🧠 Brought to you by @shaq_MD @michael_heynen & other contributors from the Firstline Community! ▶️firstline.org/microbial-purs… #IDTwitter #MedEd #MedTwitter

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Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette@SamuelBB91·2 Eyl

@mhugsmd @mykkymcg Anything that was discovered/ changed in the last six months doesn't exist until after the quiz.

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Mikki McGuinty is on Bluesky 🦋@mykkymcg·31 Ağu

It’s not R equi anymore?! The taxonomists are drunk with power.

Indiana University Infectious Diseases Fellowship@IUIDfellowship

#Rhodococcus hoagii (previously R equi) bacteremia with septic pulmonary emboli -aerobic gram+coccobacillus -Cells adopt a coccoid morphology when grown on solid media & -in liquid media bacilli of varying lengths that often appear beaded in gram-stained preparations are formed

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