The singular mission of the IDSA guidelines panel is to provide the highest quality standards for treating patients. IDSA has criteria for its guidelines panel membership: This panel included both researchers and physicians who treat patients with Lyme disease. In addition, input from a variety of sources was welcomed and evaluated.
What I find interesting is that Dr. Strickland is a member of both IDSA and pres. of ILADS and he wasn't asked to serve on the committee to write the new guidelines....
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
Dr. Stricker was on a panel at the last IDSA meeting. That is probably where these slides are.
The fact that Dr. Stricker is president of ILADS is exactly why he was not on the committee. That's basically what the CT Attorney General is alleging in his investigation, that IDSA did not consider opposing views in the creation of their guidelines.
But almost any infectious disease doc is going to be a member of IDSA. Being a member is not bad, it's the committee that put together the guidelines that has problems.
Posted by timaca (Member # 6911) on :
Thanks for posting these slides! I enjoyed viewing them!
Timaca
Posted by von (Member # 8333) on :
Thanks for the post. It made me smile.
Dr Stricker is one of my heroes!
I love the stuff that he writes, and I missed this one. He has such humility and power in his words.
"We also know that there are known unknowns; That is to say, we know that there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones that we don't know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld
I have great respect for physicians that know that they don't know.....
Also as president of ILADS, Strickers' demand for retraction of IDSA guidelines. Awesome.
I am curious how you accessed Dr. S's presentation. I am trying to find the presentation made by the IDSA/Hopkins guy.
Thanks if you can walk me through the links that got you to the list of presentations at the 2006 meetings. If I lop off the end of the URL to Dr. S's presentation, I get a message that says the index content cannot be displayed.
Posted by humanbeing (Member # 8572) on :
I just went on google and typed idsa...once I found their site, I searched lyme and got some slide presentation...I was prety surprised to find it.
Good luck, Kim
Posted by ldfighter (Member # 9405) on :
Both Dr. Stricker's & Dr. Auwaerter's presentations are available here in pdf format:
Stricker's presentation looks great. Auwaerter's slides are full of predictable half-truths, such as saying Fallon's study found "no cognitive benefit" when in fact there was a cognitive benefit until abx were discontinued. Also seems fond of the not-so-scientific "all in your head" theory.
I also find it bizarre that Auwaerter and the IDSA try to dismiss Fallon's results by saying that his study population doesn't represent people with chronic lyme because they had objective neuropsych abnormalities - meaning they had "real" lyme. The truth is that Fallon's study patients had all been treated before, so why weren't they cured? (And why did their neuropsych abnormalities return after this 2nd round of treatment was discontinued?) The contradiction is so blatant, it sounds like a joke. Except that it's in the IDSA guidelines.
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
Stricker is one of our top tier LLMDs*)!*! I would trust anyones care to him!
Re IDSA: I can't believe that Krause was involved in those guidelines. I always thought better of him than that. Disappointing!!!
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