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Antimicrobial Resistance in the times of COVID-19

This webinar will describe the epidemiology of multi-drug resistant organisms in Latin America prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and review the ramifications of the pandemic with regards to antibiotic misuse and overuse in Latin America. The presentation will also cover how diagnostics can be used to guide ideal prescribing practices for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

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Awareness or Distraction: Has COVID-19 Shown Us a Path Forward for Combatting Drug Resistant Infections?

Join CIDRAP-ASP for a webinar reviewing how infection prevention practices utilize diagnostics, and how improved utilization can decrease the burden of drug resistant infections.

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Diagnostics and Antimicrobial Stewardship: How Can We Elevate?

This webinar presentation will focus on the challenges of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in European and low/middle income settings, and explain how rapid diagnostics and biomarkers can help to achieve and elevate the goals of AMS. The utility of biomarkers for AMS will be examined, with an emphasis on the current and future use of procalcitonin (PCT).

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Interprofessional Considerations in the Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

This interprofessional activity will focus on the diagnosis gap, individualized treatment strategies, and patient-centered care practices for managing PAH treatments.

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Introduction to Diagnostic Stewardship

Topics will include an overview of diagnostic stewardship from a clinical laboratory perspective, including review of important diagnostics that have an impact on patient outcomes. A review of the linkages between diagnostics and enhancing antimicrobial stewardship will be provided. The speakers will identify key challenges and issues for implementing diagnostic stewardship within antimicrobial stewardship programs.

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Lessons Learned & Looking to the Future of Diagnostic Testing: The Experts Return

The panel discussion will cover ways to integrate rapid diagnostics into antimicrobial stewardship programs, how to utilize the best C. difficile testing modality in practice, and when to incorporate next generation sequencing into clinical decision making.

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Nebulization in the COVID-19 Era

This activity addresses the variables to evaluate for aerosol-generating procedures, including a look at the mechanism of respiratory viral transmission, national and international definitions and discusses data related to COVID-19 and nebulization.

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Opioid Stewardship® - A Certificate Program for Healthcare Professionals

The Opioid Stewardship Certificate Program is a practice-based activity for clinicians impacted by the opioid crisis. The program emphasizes a health care team approach to foster the development of a strong knowledgebase regarding opioids, pain management, opioid use disorder and skills to impact the appropriate use of opioids in healthcare and our communities.

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Optimizing Diagnostics in ASP Implementation - An African Perspective

Join CIDRAP-ASP for a webinar reviewing diagnostics as a part of antimicrobial stewardship program implementation from an African perspective. Speakers will cover experiences implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in their regions, and how to optimize access to and the use of diagnostics in ASPs from an African perspective.

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Product Quality Verification of Dietary Supplements

This activity is designed to support patient counseling efforts by examining dietary supplement regulation. Topics include the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, voluntary quality verification programs, counseling points, and the adverse event reporting process.

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Sexual Harassment: Awareness and Prevention in the Healthcare Workplace (Nurse/Physician/Physician Assistant)

This activity will assist in increasing awareness of what constitutes sexual harassment, the impact of harassment, what to do if you are harassed or a witness, the responsibilities of the employer, and the protections that are in place for those reporting harassment.

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Stewardship (Diagnostic and Antimicrobial) in Action: Individual Versus Data-driven Decision Making

Topics will include real-world examples of diagnostic stewardship and antimicrobial stewardship practices, the impact of diagnostic tools on antimicrobial stewardship programs, and strategies to resolve challenges and prevent silos to create interdisciplinary stewardship programs.

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Tracking Drug Resistant Infections

Topics will include an overview of current diagnostic and surveillance tools available for combating antimicrobial resistance, strategies for using surveillance data to inform antimicrobial stewardship policies, and discussing how increasing laboratory capacity and diagnostic testing can improve the ability to generate, collect and regularly report AMR surveillance data.

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