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18/10/2026

🎙️ Just published Communicable E65: Quarterly catch-up

Hosted by Emily McDonald and Angela Huttner 🌟

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In this episode of Communicable, Emily McDonald returns for another ‘Quarterly catch-up’ and is joined by Angela Huttner as co-host. Together, they review four recent randomised clinical trials, focusing on antibiotic treatment duration and different treatment approaches across a range of...

15/10/2026

📣 New drops Mon 19 Oct!

Emily McDonald and Angela Huttner sit down for another Quarterly catch-up, discussing four recent RCTs across different patient populations and infections, and what the findings mean for clinical practice.

04/10/2026

🎙️ Just published Communicable E64: Getting micro on macrolides for community-acquired pneumonia

Hosted by Marc Bonten & Emily McDonald with invited guests Valentijn Schweitzer & Sylvain Lother 🌟

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In this episode of Communicable, hosts Emily McDonald and Marc Bonten are joined by Sylvain Lother and Valentijn Schweitzer for a discussion on the use of macrolides in community-acquired pneumonia. Together, they examine the evidence for adding a macrolide to beta-lactam therapy, which patients...

01/10/2026

📣 More evidence that less is probably more:

During a global shortage of bottles, Japanese hospitals reduced the number of sets drawn per patient.

Contamination rates went down, while detection rates of real pathogens did not.

https://www.cmi-comms.org/article/S2950-5909(26)00042-9/fulltext

01/10/2026

📣 New drops Mon 05 Oct!

Marc Bonten and Emily McDonald are joined by Valentijn Schweitzer & Sylvain Lother to discuss the use of macrolides in community-acquired pneumonia and how the available evidence informs clinical practice. Tune in!

20/09/2026

🎙️ Just published 'Does oseltamivir harm critically ill patients? The REMAP-CAP results'

Hosted by Erin McCreary & Josh Davis with invited guests Steve Webb and Steve Tong 🌟

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At the Critical Care Reviews meeting in Belfast in June this year, REMAP-CAP investigators presented results suggesting that oseltamivir may be harmful in critically ill patients with influenza, upending a long-standing clinical practice in intensive care [1]. In this fourth collaboration between...

17/09/2026

📣 New / drops Mon 21 Sep!

Erin McCreary & Josh Davis are joined by Steve Webb & Steve Tong to discuss the potentially practice-changing REMAP-CAP results suggesting that oseltamivir may harm critically ill patients, while highlighting the importance and impact of RCTs.

06/09/2026

🎙️ Just published Communicable E62: the 'prose' and cons of the POET trial – early oral antibiotic switch for endocarditis

Hosted by Emily McDonald & Josh Davis with invited guests Henning Bundgaard and Sami El-Dalati 🌟

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In this episode of Communicable, Emily McDonald and Josh Davis host Henning Bundgaard and Sami El-Dalati for a discussion on early oral antibiotic switch for endocarditis, focusing on the POET tria...

03/09/2026

📣 New drops Mon 03 Sep!

Emily McDonald & Josh Davis are joined by Henning Bundgaard & Sami El-Dalati to revisit the POET trial and discuss the ‘prose’ and cons of early oral switch for as well as challenges of implementing new evidence against long-standing dogma.

23/08/2026

🎙️ Just published Communicable E61: We will make you love PK/PD, part 3

Hosted by Amy Legg, Rekha Pai Mangalore & Angela Huttner with invited guests Amanda Gwee & Sebastian Wicha 🌟

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In this episode of Communicable, Amy Legg (Brisbane, Australia), Rekha Pai Mangalore (Melbourne, Australia) & Angela Huttner (Geneva, Switzerland) return for the third part of the ‘We will make you love PK/PD’ series. The hosts are joined by two experts, Amanda Gwee (Melbourne, Australia) &...