28 - Treatment Conundrums: Not Always Black and White

Thursday, October 12, 2023

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM US ET

Location: 205 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Pranita Tamma, MD, MHS

Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, United States
Emily Spivak, MD, MHS (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Medicine
Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Faculty(s)

Samuel Aitken, PharmD, MPH

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
Department of Pharmacy
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Slides
Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States

Slides
Erin McCreary, PharmD (she/her/hers)

Director of Infectious Diseases Improvement and Clinical Research Innovation
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Slides

Disclosure(s):

Pranita Tamma, MD, MHS: No financial relationships to disclose

Emily S. Spivak, MD, MHS: No financial relationships to disclose

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-0000-23-002-L01-P

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

recognize if cefazolin can administered for the treatment of meningitis;
describe if MRSA surveillance results can be used to discontinue vancomycin for infections other than pneumonia;
determine if it is safe to prescribe linezolid with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Presentations:

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM US ET

Is It Safe to Prescribe Linezolid With Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
Speaker: Samuel L. Aitken, PharmD, MPH – Michigan Medicine
10:55 AM – 11:20 AM US ET

Can I Use MRSA Surveillance Results to Discontinue Vancomycin for Infections Other Than Pneumonia?
Speaker: Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA (she/her/hers) – Duke University
11:20 AM – 11:45 AM US ET

Mind Over Matter: Cefazolin for Treatment of CNS Infections
Speaker: Erin K. McCreary, PharmD (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center