Infectious Disease, Antibiotics and Sepsis

Resuscitation of the septic shock patient

Invasive fungal infection, aspergillosis and antifungal choices

Empyema; also vancomycin vs. linezolid

Cytomegalovirus: specifically, colitis

Acronymous organisms: HACEK

"Name That Microbe":  Gram-positive cocci in the CSF

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Malaria: diagnosis, severity features, management

Antibiotic stewardship in the ICU

Critique of the Sepsis-3 criteria

Clostridium difficile: investigations, clinical features, management

Staphylococcal bacteraemia: assessment and management

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD)

Necrotising fasciitis - specifically, associated with Group A Streptococci

Factors that influence the choice of antibiotics

Antibiotic dosing as continuous infusion

Cryptococcus meningitis in a patient with AIDS

Listeria monocytogenes meningitis

CSF analysis in meningitis

Infection control measures for different organisms

Meningitis - in a neonate, but without a paediatric flavour

Corticosteroids in septic shock

Acalculous cholecystitis

Approach to the hideous whole-body rash - purpura fulminans again

Ventilator-associated pneumonia: nebulised antibiotics

Meningitis - when not to LP

Meningitis - ventriculitis

Meningitis - microbiology and investigations

Cytomegalovirus

Clinical diagnosis of infective endocarditis

Ascending cholangitis

Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome

Antibiotic dosing during dialysis

C.difficile colitis: risk factors, transmission prevention, diagnosis, management

How to manage multidrug-resistant Gram-negatives

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and causes of decompensation in liver disease

Community-acquired pneumonia: risk stratification

Antimicrobial resistance in the ICU

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD)

Causes of non-resolving community acquired pneumonia

The staff member with a needle-stick injury

Coagulase-negative staphylococci and the meaning of positive blood cultures

Tetanus, again!

Management of meningitis post trans-sphenoidal surgery

Name that organism: cultures from a festering pancreatitis patient

Sepsis in the heart and lung transplant recipient - a pneumonia, of course

Ascending cholangitis

Biomarkers of sepsis: procalcitonin in some detail

Necrotising fasciitis - specifically, associated with Group A Streptococci

Listeria:  a game of "Name That Microbe". Also, risk factors and treatment options.

Mucor: a game of "Name That Microbe". Also, risk factors and treatment options.

Necrotising fasciitis: management priorities within the first 24 hours

Clostridium difficile: also, strategies to prevent the transmission of multi-resistant organisms

Community-acquired pneumonia: critically evaluate the role of steroids

Severe acute pancreatitis: role of antibiotics

Viral haemorrhagic fever (Ebola)

Antibiotic dose adjustment: a variation of kill characteristics of antibiotic agents

Critique of the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines

Pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in critical illness: specifically, in septic shock

Critique of early goal-directed therapy protocol for sepsis

General principles of antibiotic use: factors which influence the choice of agent

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP): organisation-level strategies for prevention

Antibiotic choices for selected pathogens: specific context of meningitis

HIV and AIDS: relevant investigations and antiretroviral pharmacology

Meningitis: specifically, common pathogens and role of steroids

Management of the staff member with a needle stick injury.

Clinical features of infective endocarditis other than fever and murmur.

All about the significance of the endothelial glycocalyx in sepsis.

Aspergillosis: specifically, issues related to its diagnosis

Leptospirosis, in frightening detail

Causes of antibiotic treatment failure

Pharmacokinetics of antibiotic dosing in critical illness

Kill characteristics of antibiotic agents

Resuscitation of the septic shock patient

Clostridium difficile again: risk factors, diagnosis, complications, prevention, treatment.

Sepsis in the bone marrow transplant recipient (also, causes of diarrhoea)

Acronymous organisms: ESCAPPM and HACEK organisms again.

Necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall. Also a game of "Name That Microbe."

 Critique of the Surviving Sepsis guidelines

Critically evaluate the role of vasopressin in resuscitation of septic shock.

Critique of early goal-directed therapy protocol for sepsis

Antibiotic dosing in renal failure (for patients who are not on dialysis)

Specific antibiotic choices for selected pathogens.

A critique of selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD)

Tetanus! Specific management of tetanus.

"Name That Microbe" - specifically, which Gram-negatives have innate imipenem resistance

Vibrio vulnificus: a game of "Name That Microbe"

The meaning of positive blood cultures taken from a CVC (S.epidermidis)

H1N1 "Swine Flu" influenza - diagnosis and management.

Corticosteroids in septic shock, again.

Pneumococcal meningitis in the  post-splenectomy patient.

Community-acquired pneumonia: evaluation of the non-resolving pneumonia.

Meningitis in general; specifically, aseptic meningitis.

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

Community-acquired pneumonia: prognosis, organisms, empiric treatment.

Haemoptysis in an abattoir worker; another game of "Name That Microbe".

Clostridium difficile; what causes "infective diarrhoea" in the critically ill?

Malaria: diagnosis, management and complications

Fluid resuscitation for septic shock

Which antibiotic choice would be appropriate (abdominal catastrophe)

Necrotising fasciitis: "management priorities"

Which antibiotic choice would be appropriate for these MROs.

Your ICU is a filthy zoo. Discuss strategies to prevent the transmission of MROs.

Cytomegalovirus infection in the immunocompetent patient.

Causes of antibiotic treatment failure

"Name That Microbe": Historical features associated with specific pathogens

Choice of appropriate antibiotics for this list of organisms.

Differential diagnosis of purpura fulminans; possibly meningococcal sepsis.

Necrotising fasciitis: Fournier's gangrene. 2 important management steps.

Critical evaluation of procalcitonin; a variant of the biomarkers of sepsis

Antibiotics for MRSA, antifungals, and antibiotic dosing in renal failure.

"Name That Microbe":  pneumonia, arthralgia and a new murmur in a cattle farmer

"Name That Microbe": which Gram-negatives have innate imipenem resistance?

"Name That Microbe": which Gram-positive bacillus is causing this meningitis ?

Clinical features and management of malaria.

 Infectious and non-infectious causes of fever. Also, biomarkers of sepsis

"Name That Rash" - Varicella zoster virus and VZV pneumonia.

Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Critical Illness

Acronymous organisms: ESCAPPM and HACEK

Necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall.

Sepsis in the heart-lung transplant recipient; also, complications of this transplant.

Noradrenaline in resuscitation of septic shock; also calculation of the SVR.

"Name That Microbe": Pneumonia arthralgia and a new murmur in a cattle farmer

Acronymous organisms: ESCAPPM and HACEK organisms again.

"Name That Microbe":  Gram-positive bacillus in the CSF

Acalculous cholecystitis: clinical features, investigations and management

Pneumococcal meningitis in the  post-splenectomy patient.

"Does this CSF look infected to you?" ... a case of meningitis

Acronymous organisms: ESCAPPM and HACEK organisms again.

Which antibiotic choice would be appropriate to treat this Proteus infection?

Kill characteristics of antibiotic agents

Corticosteroids in septic shock

Infective endocarditis. Particularly, what are the indications for emergency valve replacement?

Which antibiotic choice would be appropriate (abdominal catastrophe).

Toxic shock syndrome

The difficulty in making a diagnosis of sepsis; also, lets talk about biomarkers of sepsis

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

Management of the staff member with a needle stick injury.

Critique of the Surviving Sepsis guidelines

Community acquired pneumonia: specifically, historical features of special relevance.

Central line-associated bacteraemia - specifically, preventative steps.

Pseudomembranous colitis:  "likely causes" (its not always Clostridium difficile)

Inotropes in resuscitation of septic shock: comparison of adrenaline, dopamine and dobutamine.

SARS pneumonia: risk factors and management strategies.

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

Infectious and non-infectious causes of fever: a post-operative scenario

Pharmacology of antifungal agents: Fluconazole; "critically evaluate" fluconazole.

Enterococcus faecalis and faecium: significance of a bacteraemia

Community acquired pneumonia: when to escalate or de-escalate antibiotics.

Community acquired pneumonia: empiric antibiotic therapy.

Community-acquired pneumonia:  investigations.

Community-acquired pneumonia:  historical features

Pneumonia in the immunocompromised host: specifically, in AIDS.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Meningococcal sepsis

Acalculous cholecystitis: clinical features, investigations and management

Infectious and non-infectious causes of fever and the management of fever. 

Prevention of nosocomial infections in the ICU

Necrotising fasciitis: diagnostic features and priorities of management.

Implications of increasing antibiotic resistance on ICU practice

Corticosteroids in septic shock (or...refractory shock in general?)

Antibiotic pharmacology - compare benzylpenicillin, ciprofloxacin and cotrimoxazole

Central line-associated bacteraemia and preventative measures.

Malaria. Discuss management.

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antibiotics in critical illness. 

Ventilator-associated pneumonia