Abstracts 2026

Experience with infections involving the rare non-fermenter Alcaligines faecalis

Authors: Pooja Ajith, Saron Araya, Sridha Gona, Aaron George, Hugo Bonatti

Female Sex is an Independent Risk Factor for Mortality Following Post-Burn Sepsis

Authors: Diana Julia Tedesco, Maria Fernanda Hutter, Fadi Khalaf, Marc Jeschke

Hospital Trauma Volume and the Risk of Post-Injury Sepsis in Blunt Intestinal Injury: A Nationwide Analysis

Authors: Yasmin Arda, Ioannis Karikis, John Hwabejire, Michael DeWane, Charudutt Paranjape, Joshua Ng-Kamstra, Lydia Maurer, Matthew Bartek, Jonathan Parks, Ali Salim, George Velmahos, Haytham Kaafarani

Immunomodulatory Effect of Phospholipid Nanoparticle, VBI-S for Treatment of Sepsis.

Authors: Gracy Rosario, Gelilla Daniel, Benjamin Edwards, Cuthbert Simpkins

Impact of Thoracic Irrigation on Empyema Patterns in Trauma Patients

Authors: Katherine Russo, Joshua Preston, Wen Yang, Randi Smith, Jonathan Nguyen, Jason Sciarretta

Improving cefazolin use for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in patients with penicillin allergy labels

Authors: Sara Ausman, Jason Beckermann, Christopher Huiras, FNU Shweta, Sarah Lessard

Complex And Simple Appendicitis: REstrictive or Liberal postoperative Antibiotic eXposure (CASA RELAX) using Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) and Response Adjusted for Duration of Antibiotic Risk (RADAR): a multicenter Bayesian randomized controlled trial

Authors: D. Dante Yeh, Gabrielle Hatton, Claudia Pedroza, Rafael Torres Fajardo, Sean Thomas Dieffenbaugher, Gerd Daniel Pust, Luciana Tito Bustillos, Diedra Turnacliff, Erin Fitzgerald, Jesse Victory, Lucy Z. Kornblith, Caitlin Collins, Genna Beattie, William G. Cheadle, Nicholas Caminiti, Alonso Andrade, Susan F. McLean, Andrew Bernard, Matthew Ray, Lillian Kao

Infection Type and Class: Exploring Thrombotic and Renal Complications in a SICU Cohort

Authors: Ioannis Karikis, Yasmin Arda, John O. Hwabejire, Michael P. DeWane, Casey M. Luckhurst, Lydia Maurer, Joshua S. Ng-Kamstra, Haytham M. Kaafarani, George C. Velmahos, Galit H. Frydman

Critical review of a series of Acinetobacter spp surgical and blood stream infections at a rural hospital in the Appalachian region

Authors: Saron Araya, Pathya Kunthy, Sridha Gona, Aaron George, Hugo Bonatti