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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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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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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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Emerging Practices in the Management of Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia

This continuing education activity will explore the current prevalence and burden of CABP, discuss practice considerations in the use of rapid diagnostics, and examine studies and data surrounding the use of antibiotics currently available as well as emerging agents in the pipeline.

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Expert Updates in Gram Negative Resistance

Clinical and infectious diseases professionals must have the most up to date information about the spectrum of antimicrobial activity, dosing, adverse effects, and place in therapy to guide appropriate use of new agents and information about emerging therapies on the horizon. In this two-part activity, subject matter experts will discuss the knowledge and practice surrounding the use of antibiotics for gram-negative infections.

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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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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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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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