#117 Clostridium Difficile: IDSA Guidelines, Bad Puns, and Random Pearls

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Conquer Clostridium difficile (Clostridioides difficile) with this “spore-tacular” episode featuring infectious diseases expert, Dr. Curtis Donskey, Professor at Case Western Reserve University and clinician at the Louis Stokes VA Hospital. We discuss the updates in the 2017 IDSA C. difficile guidelines plus a bunch of random pearls. If you have ever laid awake at night wondering how many pills are needed for a fecal transplant, then this is the episode for you! We discuss why metronidazole was dropped as the first line therapy for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) along with other hot topics such as two-step testing, loperamide use, which antibiotics are the least likely to cause CDI, and more. Do not miss this episode!

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Credits

Written by: Carolyn Chan MD

Produced by: Matthew Watto MD

Hosts: Carolyn Chan MD, Matthew Watto MD, Paul Williams MD

Editor: Matthew Watto MD

Guest: Curtis Donskey, MD

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Terms of Icebox has been contained in education and information process only.
0:09.2	And the topics discussed should not be used only by industry,
0:10.7	your orbit and indices or conditions.
0:12.0	For the more that you've been used to express on the spot,
0:13.1	guess our solo doughs should not be interpreted perfectly
0:14.5	official policy or position of any entity,
0:15.5	the cyclopossil, cash-like morons will end up in the outreach programs.
0:17.4	Indeed, there are any in fact there are none.
0:18.9	Pretty much we are responsible for this throughout,
0:19.9	which we should always do our homework and let's know when we're done.
0:21.4	Welcome back to the Curbsiders and Paul, I'm going to get all the way through this tonight.
0:39.4	Stuart had somewhere else to be tonight, but I am joined by the great Dr. Paul Williams.
0:45.1	Hi, how are you?
0:47.1	I'm doing, I'm doing well Paul.
0:48.7	You sound surprised that I'm talking to you.
0:50.6	I'm not used to being directly addressed, I was in place else.
0:54.6	With us tonight is Dr. Carolyn Chan.
0:58.6	Carolyn, thank you so much for joining us.
1:00.8	Hey everybody, excited to be here tonight.
1:03.6	This is what, your second or third show you've done with us now?
1:07.3	Yeah, I think this is my third show, I think second time being on an episode.
1:13.6	We have a great show tonight, I'm so excited today because we get to talk all about the new seed of guidelines.
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