Febrile

A recap from IDWeek 2023.  Check out the guests/correspondents below! Group 1: Dylan Koundakjian, third year internal medicine resident at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (who is applying to ID fellowship!) Jonathan Ryder, Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE (who is back for this third IDWeek review!) Alainna Jamal, second year internal medicine resident at U...

Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Gunjan Mhapankar and Justin Penner discuss approaching a call about a mother of a NICU baby with a new blistering rash. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Lizzy O’Mahony and Felicity Fitzgerald field a call about persistent fever in a baby boy. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Fionnuala Ryan and Alasdair Bamford discuss a NICU consult for neonatal sepsis with hepatosplenomegaly, rash, and elevated ferritin Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to Febrile’s Curious Congenital Conundrums Part 2!! Drs. Amedine Duret and Liz Whittaker kick off the series with the first episode featuring a mycobacterial malady affecting mother and baby! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Drs. Noah Rosenberg, Nick Palmeri, and Wendy Stead discuss cardiac device infection diagnosis and management from the cardiology/EP and ID perspective! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to Part 2 of this pair of episodes on management of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative infections!! Drs. Hawra Al-Lawati and Pranita Tamma walk through the alphabet soup of CRE with 2 mini-cases.  Don’t miss the prior episode (Febrile #76) for more on AmpC and ESBL! You can find the most updated 2023 IDSA Guidance at this link: https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/amr-guida...

Welcome to Part 1 of this pair of episodes on management of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative infections!! Drs. Hawra Al-Lawati and Pranita Tamma walk through the alphabet soup of AmpC and ESBL with 3 mini-cases You can find the most updated 2023 IDSA Guidance at this link: https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/amr-guidance Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febril...

Luis Plaza from the “Let’s Talk Micro” podcast is our tour guide for the typical expedition that brings patient blood sample to blood culture result! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

In Part 2 of this pair of episodes, Drs. Rita Dib and Joseph Sassine zoom through the late infectious complications of CAR-T cell therapy. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

In Part 1 of this pair of episodes, Drs. Rita Dib and Joseph Sassine provide a background of CAR-T cell therapy (chimeric antigen receptor T cells) and steer you through the complications that might contribute to fever early after CAR-T. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Turn around and listen to the bright minds of Drs. Annie Jacobs and Christopher Polk investigating two cases of pericardial effusion in the US and Kenya Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

It’s time for an outbreak investigation of several MRSA cases in a NICU!  Join Annabelle de St. Maurice, Carol Vance, and Allison Bartlett as they take you through the steps of your hospital epidemiologist and infection preventionist team members! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Drs. Anastasia “Tash” Theodosiou and Chrissie Jones chat about the diagnosis and management of Group A streptococcal infections and the recent increase in GAS cases in the UK Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Drs. Ralph Tayyar and Jessica Ferguson discuss the challenges of investigating invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised hosts and interpreting noninvasive fungal markers! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Drs. Navina Birk and George Alangaden share an interesting diagnosis and how to approach donor-derived infections in transplant recipients

Have fun wrapping your head around this episode on meningitis and tips on how to approach the case as a clinical teacher.  Featuring a team from Emory University including medical student Katie Sharma, Dr. Amalia Aldredge, and Dr. Varun Phadke.   Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

We’re back!  For the first episode of 2023, join Drs. Zach Lorenz, Morgan Walker, and Olivia Kates as they share lessons from a fungal case in the ICU. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Happy 2nd Birthday to the show!! Thanks for listening and supporting Febrile for another year.  In this episode, Dr. Brad Cutrell and Sara provide updates on the US ID Fellowship Match results and discuss the landscape and challenges of ID recruitment. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Drs. Cesar Berto and Christina Coyle discuss a case of brain calcifications Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to HAI School – A Febrile Bundle on Healthcare-Associated Infections!  Join Drs. Sam Schuiteman and Owen Albin for episode #4, which will cover ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).  Don’t miss the prior episodes on CLABSI, CAUTI, and SSI.  The series runs from episodes 60-63! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to HAI School – A Febrile Bundle on Healthcare-Associated Infections!  Join Drs. Jeremy Steinbruck and Nick Gilpin for episode #3, which will cover surgical site infections (SSIs).  Stay tuned for the last episode of the series next week and the prior episodes of CLABSI and CAUTI.  The series runs from episodes 60-63! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch |...

Welcome to HAI School – A Febrile Bundle on Healthcare-Associated Infections!  Join Drs. Jeremy Steinbruck and Nick Gilpin for episode #2, which will cover catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).  Stay tuned for the rest of the series, which are episodes 60-63! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to HAI School – A Febrile Bundle on Healthcare-Associated Infections!  Join Drs. Jeremy Steinbruck and Nick Gilpin for episode #1, which will cover central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI).  Stay tuned with the following episodes over the next 3 weeks! Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com

Drs. Pratik Patel, Kevin Messacar, and Robin Patel provide a primer on molecular diagnostics, from the basics of DNA and RNA to navigating PCR and metagenomic next generation sequencing. Episodes | Consult Notes | Subscribe | Twitter | Merch | febrilepodcast@gmail.com