Physician
Infectious Disease
Dr. Edward J. Septimus, MD
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Dr. Edward J. Septimus is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He attended Baylor College of Medicine. He received 1 awards: "Top MD". Edward Septimus is also published. He has 56 publications published. The lastest publication: "Bronchoesophageal fistula due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus in a patient with AIDS.'
Publications
- Ventilator-associated events: a broader perspective.
- Assessment of empirical antibiotic therapy optimisation in six hospitals: an observational cohort study.
- Assessment of Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities in a Large Metropolitan Area.
- Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination? A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial.
- Cost Savings of Universal Decolonization to Prevent Intensive Care Unit Infection: Implications of the REDUCE MRSA Trial.
- A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates.
- Approaches for preventing healthcare-associated infections: go long or go wide?
- Maintaining the momentum of change: the role of the 2014 updates to the compendium in preventing healthcare-associated infections.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary.
- Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection.
- Infection prevention practices in adult intensive care units in a large community hospital system after implementing strategies to reduce health care-associated, methi...
- Antimicrobial stewardship: a collaborative partnership between infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists.
- Need and potential of antimicrobial stewardship in community hospitals.
- A multifaceted mandatory patient safety program and seasonal influenza vaccination of health care workers in community hospitals.
- Revised SHEA position paper: influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel.
- Health-care-associated infections: the legislative perspective and the pharmacist's role.
- International conference on health care-associated bloodstream infections.
- Relationship of influenza vaccination declination statements and influenza vaccination rates for healthcare workers in 22 US hospitals.
- Improving patient safety: resource availability and application for reducing the incidence of healthcare-associated infection.
- Spectrum of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection after intravesical BCG immunotherapy.
- Prevention of Device-Related Healthcare-Associated Infections.
- Combating antimicrobial resistance: policy recommendations to save lives.
- Mycobacterium simiae pseudo-outbreak resulting from a contaminated hospital water supply in Houston, Texas.
- A retrospective, comparative evaluation of dysglycemias in hospitalized patients receiving gatifloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, or ceftriaxone.
- Developing quality measures for sepsis care in the ICU.
- Results of a national survey of infectious diseases specialists regarding influenza vaccination programs for healthcare workers.
- Cluster randomized trials in comparative effectiveness research: randomizing hospitals to test methods for prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
- Growth hormone secretion and control in the mouse.
- Intra-abdominal infections in the elderly: diagnosis and management.
- Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: a report of 12 cases and a literature review.
- Pyomyositis in an intravenous drug user with human immunodeficiency virus.
- Cost-effective application of the Centers for Disease Control Guideline for Infection Control in Hospital Personnel.
- Endophthalmitis due to Pasteurella multocida and CDC EF-4.
- Nosocomial bacterial pneumonias.
- Septic bursitis caused by gram-negative bacilli.
- Soft-tissue infection caused by Edwardsiella tarda and Aeromonas hydrophila.
- Osteomyelitis caused by Vibrio vulnificus.
- Tricuspid valve group B streptococcal endocarditis following elective abortion.
- Meningitis caused by group B streptococcus in association with cerebrospinal rhinorrhea.
- Catfish-related injury and infection: report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Infection of the psoas muscle secondary to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection.
- Acute tuberculous pneumonia.
- Disk diffusion susceptibility testing of Nocardia species.
- Percutaneous drainage of lung abscess.
- Treatment of experimental nocardiosis in mice: comparison of amikacin and sulfonamide.
- Osteomyelitis: recent clinical and laboratory aspects.
- Osteomyelitis secondary to traumatic injury or surgery: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- Clinical challenges in addressing resistance to antimicrobial drugs in the twenty-first century.
- Bronchoesophageal fistula due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus in a patient with AIDS.
- Cervicofacial nocardiosis in children.
- Hypoglycemia as a manifestation of sepsis.
- Use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for treatment of infections due to Nocardia.
- Haemophilus influenzae infections in adults: characterization of strains by serotypes, biotypes, and beta-lactamase production.
- Computerized tomography in brain biopsy-proven herpes simplex encephalitis. Early normal results.
- Secondary rash in toxic-shock syndrome.
Schools
Baylor College Of Medicine
Baylor Affil Hosps
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
Awards
- Top MD
Education
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Baylor College of Medicine
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