Emergency Department, Lab and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Connecting the Dots
September 19, 2019
Addressing a Clinical Decision Dilemma at the Source
Speakers:
Christopher D. Doern, Ph.D.(ABMM)
Associate Professor, Pathology and Pediatrics, Director of Clinical Microbiology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Lindsey Nielsen, ASCP(M, MB), PhD
CPEP Fellow
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Barbara DeBaun, RN, MSN, CIC
Improvement Advisor
Cynosure Health
Attend this 60-minute program and you will learn:
- The downstream impact of false-positive blood cultures, with a focus on antimicrobial stewardship in this age of antibiotic resistance
- The strengths and weakness of rapid diagnostic in bacteremia diagnosis
- Other intervention methods that have been applied, and their limited impact
- A solution (Steripath Gen2 Initial Specimen Diversion Device®) that can address this diagnostic error at the source