Laura Certain, MD, PhD

Our new partnership with @DGlaucomflecken has begun! Visit our new TikTok channel for his first video featuring Bug Bro and Ortho as they discuss whether iodine or chlorhexidine is better for surgical prep of an extremity fracture: @nejm.org/video/7407850750451207454" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@nejm.org/vide…

Dr. Hannah Imlay, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been awarded the Internal Medicine Fellow's Faculty Teaching Award. 🎉 This is awarded each year to one faculty member, who is nominated and presented by fellows. Congratulations, Dr. Imlay! #uofu

Kudos to @JessieLSeidel for spearheading the MMUSKIT study on fracture-related infection, amazing partnership from @laura_certain and #AlainaRitter! academic.oup.com/ofid/article/d…

@laura_certain, @R_Benefield: “Once more, with feeling”: Using a propensity-matched cohort, researchers demonstrated equivalence between IV and PO antibiotics for orthopedic infections, adding another nail in the coffin of old dogma. bit.ly/3UkEI1q

🆕️⚡️“Once more, with feeling”: no difference in outcomes between patients discharged on oral versus intravenous antibiotics for orthopedic infections in a propensity score matched cohort at a US medical center. #IDXposts @laura_certain cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Super interesting ⚡️⚡️ Dalbavancin TDM 🆕️🔥 Proactive therapeutic monitoring of dalbavancin concentrations in the long-term management of chronic osteoarticular periprosthetic joint infections #IDXposts journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…

Happy to share our latest, out today in mBio. We treated a patient with phage therapy and because of their willingness to participate in our research, we studied what happened throughout their medical journey. Congrats to @MadisonStellfox and co-authors! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

@IdVilchez @BradSpellberg @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD @AntibioticDoc @JonathanRyderMD @dralicehan @Abx_doc @JamesWilsonDO1 @BJegorovic @Cortes_Penfield @ABsteward @IDwithNWD @okwalding Levo+rif, or tmp-smx, depending on what other meds they're on, renal function, etc.

#IDTwitter what would you do next if you find this culture result from osteomyelitis and how to treat? @BradSpellberg @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD @AntibioticDoc @JonathanRyderMD @dralicehan @Abx_doc @JamesWilsonDO1 @BJegorovic @Cortes_Penfield @ABsteward @IDwithNWD @okwalding

A good reminder that it can be ok to stop antibiotics after a year for PJI treated with DAIR, even for "sticky" bugs. Though in this case if the vascular graft had been proven to be infected then I probably wouldn't have been brave enough to stop chronic amox.

🆕️🔥Retrospective multicentre cohort study of PJI Exclusive oral antibiotic therapy or with ≤3 d of IV Abx for 6 weeks was associated with a similar rate of management failure after surgery ompared with other antibiotic therapy options @BradSpellberg academic.oup.com/jac/article/do…

Thank you to our current listeners! We are working on new episodes! Ideas for future episodes? Let us know! Listen on apple/spotify/coneymed! #orthotwitter #infectiousdisease #podcast #pji

Would you inject steroids into a prosthetic knee? This database study from @CedarsSinaiMed found ⬆️ risk of PJI and revision TKA in pts who had undergone ipsilateral knee steroid injection w/in 1y of TKA. #orthotwitter @AlexisGaskin32 @pjamiesonkay arthroplastytoday.org/article/S2352-…

@Cortes_Penfield And now I'm wondering, is the gender for the brand name ever different from the gender for the generic version of the same drug? Like, LA daptomicina but EL Cubicin? I would think so.

@IdVilchez @FungalDoc @DrLuisO @GermHunterMD @tmhohl71 @LionakisLab @boulware_dr @Cortes_Penfield @wwrighID As for the "how long" question, no one knows. Often people say 6-12 months for fungal osteo, but I think that is based on low quality data for Candida osteo.

#IDtwitter from bone culture after contaminated penetrating injury to limb. How would you treat and for how long? Clinical and radiologic evidence of osteomyelitis. No S provided @FungalDoc @DrLuisO @GermHunterMD @tmhohl71 @LionakisLab @boulware_dr @Cortes_Penfield @wwrighID @dralicehan @BradSpellberg @DrToddLee @DrEmilyMcD @monicaivan4

Finding old friends from @MGHMedicine @mghmedres @laura_certain #IDWeek23 #IDWeek2023

Be sure to visit these posters examining social determinants of health being presented today by @SIDPharm members @R_Benefield with @laura_certain & @HeatherC2024, and @hallpharms! @accpinfdprn @IDWeekmtg #IDWeek2023 #SIDP2023

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Check out the latest issue of #Infectious Disease Clinics on #Transplant-Related #Infections, by @HannahImlay & Dr. Kimberly E Hanson. “Dedicated infectious diseases involvement is an essential part of the multidisciplinary care of this medically complex patient population.”

@CallahanPulm I have several patients on my consult list for whom that would be an appropriate goal.

Quote of the day: "Let's get a better sense of what the patient's 'mouth to anus' status is." -Jeff Graham, MD Pulm/crit fellow superstar