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DASON Digest
Hosted by Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network (DASON) · EN
The DASON Digest features engaging conversations with experts in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship covering a variety of topics. New episodes of the Digest are published every other Friday. Subscribe to follow along with our latest content.
For more information about DASON, please visit https://dason.medicine.duke.edu.
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Ep.139 – Game on for Antibiotic Stewardship
1w ago00:08:32Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes In this episode, host April Dyer discusses the recently published research brief, "Seven Days, Seven Quests: Gamification to Enhance Engagement with Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources During Antibiotic Awareness Week," by Meghan N. Jeffres and colleagues, published in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE) in 2026. The authors describe an innovative Antibiotic Awareness Week campaign that leveraged gamification to engage healthcare professionals with antimicrobial stewardship resources through daily puzzles, decision trees, clinical scenarios, and interactive challenges. The article can be viewed here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13104535/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.138 – How Much Juice for the Squeeze? Associating stewardship outcomes with resource allocation
3w ago00:18:11Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes In this episode of the DASON Digest, host Dr. Libby Dodds Ashley is joined by Drs. Brad Langford and Amy Kang to discuss their scoping review on antimicrobial stewardship program resourcing and outcomes. They review the current evidence evaluating how stewardship staffing and resource allocation impact antimicrobial use, clinical and economic outcomes, and share key insights for future projects and directions related to stewardship staffing. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13124438/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.137 – Stewardship in Action: Poster Highlights from the MAD-ID & SIDP 2026 Annual Meeting
May 2200:15:16Tap to summarizeIn this episode of the DASON Digest, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison, Dr. Jeannette Bouchard, highlights key posters and clinical pearls from the MAD-ID and SIDP 2026 Annual Meeting, including oral antibiotic transitions, Bayesian vancomycin dosing, renal dose adjustments in septic shock, personalized antibiograms, and greener antimicrobial stewardship practices. For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.136 – Convenience vs. Care: Rethinking IV Push Cefepime in Critically Ill Pseudomonas Patients
May 800:40:33Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes In this episode of the DASON Digest, we discuss Chris Bland's study on IV push cefepime for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the implications of these findings. The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41166592/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.135 – Bugging Out: Antimicrobial Updates in Sepsis Care
Apr 2400:31:20Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes Join ID Pharmacy Resident Paul Puccio as he speaks with Dr. Arielle Cohen, an ID Fellow at Duke University, is about the antimicrobial updates in the 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines. They focus on timing of antibiotic initiation, antimicrobial coverage, and rapid diagnostic tests and what this means for the treatment of sepsis and septic shock. The guidelines can be viewed here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41870560/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.134 – When Antibiotics Get Lost in Transition: Errors Moving from Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility
Apr 1000:25:40Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes In this episode of the DASON Digest, we discuss Dr. Amy Kang’s study on antimicrobial transition errors from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities, highlighting that nearly one-third of patients experience errors and why stewardship efforts must extend beyond hospital discharge to improve continuity, safety, and infection outcomes. The article from the episode can be viewed here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41852555/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.133 – Beyond the Cardinal Symptoms: Evaluating the Latest Antibiotic COPDE Treatment Criteria
Mar 2700:30:03Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes Join DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Jeannette Bouchard and Dr. Rey Perez as they discuss the 2026 GOLD guideline updates regarding antibiotic use in COPD exacerbations. Together, they explore the clinical implications of antibiotic treatment indications—including prior positive sputum cultures—and discuss practical strategies for antimicrobial stewardship teams to reduce unnecessary empiric prescribing at the point of admission. The document for this episode can be viewed here: https://goldcopd.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GOLD-REPORT-2026-v1.3-8Dec2025_WMV2.pdf For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.132 – The Science of Antibiotic Decisions: Physician Antibiotic Choices for Community Infections
Mar 1300:25:58Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes Join DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Jeannette Bouchard and UNC ID Pharmacy Resident Kelly Gaebel as they discuss a recent article from Open Forum Infectious Diseases examining physician antibiotic prescribing preferences for community-acquired pneumonia and complicated urinary tract infections. Together, they explore how clinicians weigh factors like guideline recommendations, patient risk, and treatment outcomes—and what these findings may mean for antimicrobial stewardship efforts in community hospitals. The article may be viewed here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41567263/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.131 – When a UTI Isn't Just a UTI: Why the Right Diagnosis Changes Everything
Feb 2700:21:49Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes In this episode, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Angelina Davis talks with us about an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases called "State-of-the-Art Review: Diagnosis and Management of Acute and Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis." The article can be viewed here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41657226/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
Transcribe →Ep.130 – Bugs in the Belly: Optimization, Dosing, and Better Outcomes
Feb 1300:39:55Tap to summarizeEpisode Notes In this episode of the DASON Digest podcast, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison Dr. Melissa Johnson talks with Drs. Ritika Prasad, Radhika Arya, and Natalie Medvedeva about their publication in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology entitled "Gut check: antimicrobial stewardship opportunities in intra-abdominal infections." The article can be viewed here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12877908/ For more information about DASON, please visit: https://dason.medicine.duke.edu/
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