Best ID references

[nafcillin]

I am wondering if any of you can recommend a good book on the basics of infectious diseases. I think I slept through that portion of pharm school and need to brush up on basic ID concepts.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Here.

More or less memorize all of this **** and you're golden. It's what I did coming out of school at Zpak's recommendation and I was doing pretty good with on the fly recommendations on the bazillion times they apparently though it was good idea to leave a 25 year old new graduate all alone in a 160+ census hospital with a large ICU and busy ED...

 

[gotdrugs]

I am wondering if any of you can recommend a good book on the basics of infectious diseases. I think I slept through that potion of pharm school and need to brush up on basic ID concepts.

The irony is thick in this post.

 

[nafcillin]

Thanks for the reference

 

[Ackj]

The irony is thick in this post.

I was thinking the same thing. Strong username.

Personally, I've had great luck with Sanford Guide and Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. Both are those "pocket sized" books that barely fit in a pocket due to being 1000 pages.

 

[rxlea]

Hopkins on my smartphone is awesome

 

[Sparda29]

I was thinking the same thing. Strong username.

Personally, I've had great luck with Sanford Guide and Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. Both are those "pocket sized" books that barely fit in a pocket due to being 1000 pages.

I like the John Hopkins ABX Guide and Sanford pocket guide too. Actually, the Johns Hopkins ABX guide fits pretty well into my white coat.

 

[tungsten87]

between sanford, id society, and JHU i think most everything is covered.

 

[xiphoid2010]

Hopkins and sanford is a starting point but not nearly good enough as no consideration is given for local resistance pattern. Also a lot of the infections have no guidelines in place, so much has to be learned in pgy-2 or from the clinical judgment of a good ID doc.

For a start, I would recommend students and newly grad to at least memorize the coverage of the antibiotics, the tables in the middle of Sanford guide gives a good summary. Basically you should know whether an order for cefepime on a positive enterococcus culture makes sense, or what you should be looking for if valganciclovir is ordered. You will be suprised how many pharmacists don't have the slightest idea, and go no allergy, no interaction, process order..

 

[UES Girl]

We used Mendels - whatever current edition is and Sanford on my ID consult rotation.

 

[UES Girl]

Hopkins and sanford is a starting point but not nearly good enough as no consideration is given for local resistance pattern. Also a lot of the infections have no guidelines in place, so much has to be learned in pgy-2 or from the clinical judgment of a good ID doc.

You will be suprised how many pharmacists don't have the slightest idea, and go no allergy, no interaction, process order..

This can't be possible.