Critical Care Pharmacist 👩🏾⚕️💊 with a passion for Infectious Diseases 🦠🧫 & Solid Organ Transplant 🫁🫀#TwitteRx #IDTwitter #TxPharm #CritCareMed #PharmICU
Vancouver, BC
Joined July 2009
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Tanveer Brar retweeted
continuing empiric vancomycin for >48 hours without *any* evidence of MRSA (no PCR, culture, or gram stain data to support the presence of MRSA) should be a federal crime.
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Fox goes for the layup against OG instead of dribbling the clock out. I genuinely need this man investigated @FBI
Tanveer Brar retweeted
💊 Can patients with a penicillin allergy safely receive piperacillin–tazobactam?
📊 The PIPPEN study found that 98% (187/191) of patients with a penicillin allergy tolerated piperacillin–tazobactam, including 100% of those with prior anaphylaxis.
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Tanveer Brar retweeted
Evidence on the PK/PD perspective to optimizing antimicrobial therapy with beta-lactams in critically ill patients is ever growing.
🆕⚡Excellent review
PK-PD perspective to optimizing therapy with beta-lactams in critically ill patients: an update
thanks @Inox94 #IDXposts
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Tanveer Brar retweeted
On this day 16 years ago, the NICE SUGAR trial was published, showing that intensive glucose control increased mortality among adults in the ICU. Today, we continue to target a glucose of less than 180 mg per deciliter owing to the results of this study.
Revisit the Original Article “Intensive versus Conventional Glucose Control in Critically Ill Patients”: nej.md/4iu27YQ
This image comes from the Review Article, “The Past 200 Years in Diabetes”: nej.md/4bRK1NT
ALT On This Day in 2009 Intensive versus Conventional Glucose Control in Critically Ill Patients Milestones in diabetes diagnosis and management.
Tanveer Brar retweeted
The San Antonio Spurs' new All-Star point guard-center duo: De'Aaron Fox and Victor Wembanyama.
Tanveer Brar retweeted
TIL @ATCMeeting: 65.9% of transplant pharmacists meet criteria for #burnout - more than any other discipline in the field. Sounds like a #CallToAction is imperative at this point!
Tanveer Brar retweeted
Lots of new data coming out in the ID space lately 🔥🔥🔥 check out some of the new articles ⬇️:
SABATO 💉 vs. 💊: thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
REGARD-VAP 🫁: thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
#IDXPosts #IDTwitter
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Learn more about the engaging #LungTx content coming to #ISHLT2024. 🫁
▶️ Explore the online Program Viewer now at 🔗 bit.ly/48JzbqCto view details on 30 sessions specific to #LungFailure. Abstract content will be available on 1 March.
Tanveer Brar retweeted
Looking forward to #ISHLT2024! Great sessions in #LungTx on #AMR, #PGD, #CLAD & some very interesting sessions on living with a 🫁 transplant, challenging donor situations, organ storage/transport, recent advances in diagnostics & more! Plus it's in Prague!
See you there!
Learn more about the engaging #LungTx content coming to #ISHLT2024. 🫁
▶️ Explore the online Program Viewer now at 🔗 bit.ly/48JzbqCto view details on 30 sessions specific to #LungFailure. Abstract content will be available on 1 March.
Tanveer Brar retweeted
Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy @ASMicrobiology multicenter study confirming that #omadacycline is now an important part of #NTM treatment regimens.
Thanks @tbrar for adding this to the "Nontuberculous Mycobacteria" folder at transplantid.net
transplantid.net/VBWKDHTR
Tanveer Brar retweeted
For today's grand finale, we drew inspiration from Dikembe Mutombo for some new #antimicrobialstewardship strategies.
*We can neither confirm nor deny that antimicrobial stewardship will save you 15% on car insurance.*
#USAAW23 #WAAW2023 #WAAW
Tanveer Brar retweeted
new chapter: ground glass opacities (GGO)
☁️ GGO is enormously common (and no, it doesn’t mean that the patient has pneumocystis or COVID 🙄)
☁️subtypes help narrow the differential (eg diffuse GGO, mosaic pattern, crazy-paving, headcheese sign)
emcrit.org/ibcc/ggo/ #IBHP
Tanveer Brar retweeted
fresh chapter: hilar & mediastinal lymphadenopathy
🔍 mild swelling of a couple nodes is nonspecific, but bulky lymphadenopathy is diagnostically important
🔍distribution, imaging characteristics, & context can help sort the possibilities
emcrit.org/ibcc/lymphadenopa…
Tanveer Brar retweeted
fresh chapter: septal thickening, crazy paving, and fibrosis
〰️ septal thickening often suggests heart failure, but the differential is broad
🤪 approach to the acutely ill patient with crazy paving
🐝🍯 causes of honeycombing
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Tanveer Brar retweeted
fresh chapter: cavitary lung lesions!
🕳️ broad differential (the usual suspects: infection, malignancy, inflammatory)
🕳️ key clues include number, location, wall thickness, surrounding lesions
🕳️ air-crescent sign suggests aspergillus, but not always
emcrit.org/ibcc/cavitation/
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fresh chapter: distribution of radiologic abnormalities
👀 migratory abnormalities that shift rapidly argue against infection
👀 peribronchovascular dist is subjective, but if unequivocal can help
👀 central & peripheral distributions are seen often
emcrit.org/ibcc/distribution…
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fresh chapter: nodular patterns 😃
☘️ different patterns can have immediate & major implications
☘️ acutely ill pt w/ miliary pattern suggests TB or fungus. vanc-piptazo won’t fix this.
☘️ MIP (maximal intensity projection) images often help sort out
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