I have been using AI to help create a couple of microbiology-related educational presentations over the past few weeks, for the first time in a […]
Category: Microbiology
“Carbapenem Conundrums”
Last week, while on-call I recommended a carbapenem for three different patients within the space of 30 minutes. Yes, it happens sometimes! Most empiric antibiotic […]
“Sometimes you just have to admit that you were wrong”
Many microbiology laboratories, including my own, have in place a CSF leucocyte count cut-off of 5 × 10⁶/L as a criterion for performing multiplex PCR […]
“Too much information”
Can the microbiology lab give too much information to the clinicians? Take the following hypothetical example regarding reporting of enteric type organisms: Patient X presents […]