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Antibiotic Stewardship & Clinical Mastery

Like Duolingo, but for Antibiotic Stewardship & Clinical Mastery. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

9 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Antibiotic Stewardship & Clinical Mastery

  • Beta-lactams exhibit time-dependent killing where efficacy is tied to the percentage of the dosing interval the free drug concentration remains above the MIC
  • Extended or continuous infusions maximize the T>MIC profile compared to intermittent boluses, especially in pathogens with higher MICs
  • In critical illness, standard boluses often fail to maintain concentrations above MIC due to rapid clearance or high pathogen burden
  • Hydrophilic antibiotics (aminoglycosides, glycopeptides) distribute primarily into extracellular fluid
  • Sepsis-induced capillary leak and aggressive fluid resuscitation significantly increase the Volume of Distribution (Vd)
  • Loading doses must be increased in septic shock to achieve the target peak concentration (Cmax/MIC) despite the expanded Vd
  • Optimizing beta-lactam efficacy by prioritizing time above MIC in hypermetabolic states
  • Adjusting loading doses for hydrophilic drugs in the context of fluid resuscitation and capillary leak
  • Aminoglycosides exhibit a Post-Antibiotic Effect (PAE)
  • Augmented Renal Clearance (ARC) in young patients
  • Beta-lactam efficacy in hypermetabolic states
  • Extended-interval dosing reduces nephrotoxicity
  • Cmax/MIC ratio drives bactericidal surge
  • Loading doses for hydrophilic drugs in sepsis
  • Utilizing PAE to sequence aminoglycoside dosing
  • The Inoculum Effect describes the significant increase in MIC when the bacterial density exceeds the standard lab concentration (10^5 CFU/mL)
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Antibiotic Stewardship & Clinical Mastery the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Dosing in the Storm

Which administration method is most effective for maximizing the T>MIC profile against tough pathogens?

Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.

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Where Antibiotic Stewardship & Clinical Mastery takes you

Move beyond standard dosing protocols to master the nuances of PK/PD optimization and the management of multi-drug resistant organisms in high-acuity settings.

  1. 1

    Precision Dosing and PK/PD Optimization

    • Advanced PK/PD for Critical Care
    • Decoding Complex Resistance Patterns
  2. 2

    Salvage Therapy and Future Frontiers

    • Strategies for Multi-Drug Resistance

2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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Antibiotic Stewardship & Clinical Mastery is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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