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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD

@cortes-penfield.bsky.social
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Infectious Disease physician @ UNMC by way of BCM. Into General and Orthopedic ID, medical education, clinical ethics. Give me a bottle of Doxycycline big enough and I shall cure the world (or at least suppress it)

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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Writing this was a ton of fun (and TBH a great excuse to get Erin and Julie in my co-author pokedex of ID rockstars). Particularly want to highlight the modern MSK infection RTCs table, which points to how much early PO switch has become standard among the people who do run Ortho ID clinical trials.
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The new expression of academic collegiality is when you start a zoom call with your Canadian/European peers and make pained/apologetic noises while they kindly inquire about your plans to leave the country.
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
👀 In a large national VA cohort, oral antibiotic prophylaxis following 2-stage for PJI not only was not associated with fewer reinfections, but led to those recurrent infections being caused by more resistant pathogens (ie with more limited suppression options) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40051754/
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Have been fiddling with EuropePMC all morning and seems like a suitable replacement for PubMed- actually casts a wider net, including preprints and abstracts by default. Would love to see even an ID journal letter to the editor published with some quantitative comparisons (assuming PubMed survives)
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ending the work of USAID and PEPFAR amounts to a mass killing. Just morally depraved. I don’t understand how you could value human life and do this thing.
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So @asm.org if I publish in one of your journals (like AAC or CMR) do you reserve the right the change the publish text of my peer-reviewed work at any time without telling me? Let us know
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
As someone who is very familiar with both the US and Canadian systems, I can confirm that PHAC is a great source of info, especially regarding guidance and easy to access facts. It doesn’t replace American data lost at CDC in the great purge but it does provide reliable health & medical information.
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@germhuntermd.bsky.social cyberbullying the IDSA into saying dismantling the CDC might be bad
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Julie Ann Justo @juliejusto.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Such a fun episode to make with old & new friends! As always, we get nerdy 🤓 this time about biofilms 🧫 The innovative non-pharmacologic agents in the PJI space are fascinating. It’s much more than 🦴 cement! @cortes-penfield.bsky.social @sidpharm.bsky.social #Breakpoints #IDSky #AMSSky #PharmSky
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“HAL, stop prescribing gentamicin bladder instillations. This patient has a suprapubic catheter, he will have pyuria and bacteruria until the day he dies.” “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”
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Zaven Sargsyan @sargsyanz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is one of the most important and thoughtful papers about med ed I've ever read
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
My 2024 holiday splurge was on a gaming laptop, which inexorably (and within a couple weeks) instead became the Microsoft Excel / systematic review laptop. Sigh.
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I spent an hour at work instead of with my family on Christmas Eve because I took over services and had to “fix” my colleagues’ perfectly serviceable A&Ps so that they “flowed right”. I love my pathological ID neuroticism, just wish I could turn it off once in a while. Sigh.
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The cutoff for what constitutes “Acute PJI” is inconsistently (and somewhat arbitrarily) defined, but this recent cohort study of >5000 DAIR procedure out of Australia suggests that treatment outcomes deteriorate when DAIR is performed more than 4wk postoperatively pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39710215/
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Outcomes of Debridement, Antibiotics, and Implant Retention in the Management of Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty: Analysis of 5,178 Cases from the National Australian Registry - PubMed
These findings underscore the critical influence of patient-related factors and the timing of DAIR treatment on the need for additional surgery. DAIR after four weeks had an increased risk of subseque...
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Erin McCreary, PharmD @erinmccreary.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
UPMC & Pitt are looking for a Medical Director, System Antimicrobial Stewardship! This person will partner with Dr. Graham Snyder, Tina Khadem, & myself to lead 37 US-based hospitals' antimicrobial stewardship and infectious diseases quality efforts. #idsky #medsky cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Most serious academics have career goals like publishing in JAMA or Science or Nature. My career goal is to get published in a Christmas issue of the BMJ.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Almost ready to start writing - just need to quickly read everything that has ever been, or will ever be, documented about this topic
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Nico Cortés-Penfield MD @cortes-penfield.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Here is a nice pre/post cohort study reporting the Stanford Ortho ID group’s experience implementing routine PO switch. They achieved a 45% increase in discharge on PO abx with no diff in 90d clinical outcomes, shorter LOS, and trend toward fewer IV-related AEs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39660026/
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Implementing Oral Antibiotics for Bone and Joint Infections: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Improvement - PubMed
An institutional guideline was effective in increasing the proportion of patients with bone and joint infections discharged on oral antibiotics. We observed similar clinical outcomes after implementin...
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