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Scott Crabtree's Training And Practice
- Scott Crabtree described his training path: residency with the Air Force, a fellowship in New Hampshire, then returning to military service before settling at UC Davis.
- He now practices clinical infectious diseases, stewardship, and infection prevention at UC Davis in Sacramento.
Trials Show No Clear Benefit In Low-Risk IAI
- Clinical trials generally show no clear benefit to empirically covering Enterococcus in low-risk community-acquired intra-abdominal infections.
- Trial subanalyses are underpowered, so uncertainty remains when cultures later grow Enterococcus.
Enterococcus May Be A Marker, Not The Cause
- Observational studies suggest Enterococcus presence may associate with worse outcomes, but causality is unclear due to confounding variables.
- Factors like location, source control, and patient comorbidities drive outcome differences more than organism identity alone.