Newsletters

We issue monthly newsletters to DASON members to keep hospital clinical pharmacists and physicians involved in antimicrobial stewardship programs up-to-date about technical, timely, and important news regarding antimicrobial stewardship topics.

Below is a list of newsletters you can access if you join Dason

Date Title
July 2018 New Aminoglycoside on the Block: What role should Plazomicin play in the management of infectious diseases?
August 2018 Here We Go Again! FDA Updates Drug Safety Communication for Fluoroquinolones
September 2018 Diagnostic Stewardship Part II: Understanding indications for collecting blood cultures for hospitalized adult patients
October 2018 The MERINO trial: Piperacillin-tazobactam loses out to meropenem in drug-resistant blood stream infections.
November 2018 Antimicrobial Stewardship Training Resources and More!
December 2018 Preoperative Staphlylococcus aureus surveillance, decolonization, and the implications for SSI prevention and antibiotic prophylaxis
January 2019 It's That Time of Year: Flu Shots
February 2019 Antibiogram Updates 2019
March 2019 Are Oral Antibiotics Just as Good as Intravenous?
April 2019 TYRX Pocket - The Perfect Pocket?
May 2019 Updates to the NHSN AU Option: New Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR) + NHSN Reference Attachment
June 2019 Community Acquired Pneumonia: 3 vs 5-day course of azithromycin in combination with a beta-lactam